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910 results match your criteria: "Institute for Ophthalmic Research[Affiliation]"
Exp Eye Res
December 2024
Departments of Biochemistry and Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. Electronic address:
Organelles such as mitochondria, lysosomes, peroxisomes, and the endoplasmic reticulum form highly dynamic cellular networks and exchange information through sites of physical contact. While each organelle performs unique functions, this inter-organelle crosstalk helps maintain cell homeostasis. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a devastating blinding disease strongly associated with mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and decreased clearance of cellular debris in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Parkinson's disease (PD)-linked protein Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2) consists of seven domains, including a kinase and a Roc G domain. Despite the availability of several high-resolution structures, the dynamic regulation of its unique intramolecular domain stack is nevertheless still not well understood. By in-depth biochemical analysis, assessing the Michaelis-Menten kinetics of the Roc G domain, we have confirmed that LRRK2 has, similar to other Roco protein family members, a K value of LRRK2 that lies within the range of the physiological GTP concentrations within the cell.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHeliyon
November 2024
Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Aalen, Germany.
Nano Lett
December 2024
Center for Synaptic Neuroscience and Technology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, 16132 Genova, Italy.
Most neural prosthetic devices are based on electrical stimulation, although the modulation of neuronal activity by a localized chemical delivery would better mimic physiological synaptic machinery. In the past decade, various drug delivery approaches attempted to emulate synaptic transmission, although they were hampered by poor retention of their cargo while reaching the target destination, low spatial resolution, and poor biocompatibility and stability of the materials involved. Here, we propose a planar solid-state device for multisite neurotransmitter translocation at the nanoscale consisting of a nanopatterned ceramic membrane connected to a reservoir designed to store neurotransmitters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFActa Ophthalmol
November 2024
ZEISS Vision Care, Aalen, Germany, Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Aalen, Germany.
Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of 12 months of spectacle lens wear incorporating cylindrical annular refractive elements (CARE) in slowing myopia progression compared to single vision (SV) spectacle wear.
Methods: In an ongoing 2-year prospective, double-masked, multi-centre clinical trial, 240 Chinese children aged 6-13 years, spherical equivalent refractive error (SE) -0.75 D to -5.
Cell Rep
November 2024
Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60603, USA. Electronic address:
The retina extracts chromatic information present in an animal's environment. How this information is processed in the retina is not well understood. In the mouse, chromatic information is not collected equally throughout the retina.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Genet
October 2024
Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Introduction: Autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa type 17 (adRP, type RP17) is caused by complex structural variants (SVs) affecting a locus on chromosome 17 (chr17q22). The SVs disrupt the 3D regulatory landscape by altering the topologically associating domain (TAD) structure of the locus, creating novel TAD structures (neo-TADs) and ectopic enhancer-gene contacts. Currently, screening for RP17-associated SVs is not included in routine diagnostics given the complexity of the variants and a lack of cost-effective detection methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Med (Lausanne)
October 2024
Section of Neurobiology of the Eye, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Tuebingen, Germany.
Visual deprivation causes enhanced eye growth and the development of myopia, which is associated with a change in the arrangement of collagen fibers within the sclera. A second harmonic generation (SHG) microscope has been used to image the collagen fibers of unstained scleral punches from the posterior part of chicken eyes. We aimed to analyze the fibrous scleral tissue and quantify the changes in collagen organization in relation to the extent of induced deprivation myopia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Ophthalmol
October 2024
University Eye Hospital, Centre for Ophthalmology, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
No consensus has been reached on the adequate dose of mitomycin C (MMC) in XEN45 gel stent implantation. Lower doses have the potential to reduce MMC-linked side effects. This study aimed to evaluate treatment efficacy of ab interno XEN45 gel stent in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) with three different MMC doses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTransl Vis Sci Technol
October 2024
Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Purpose: The mechanisms underlying a myopia control strategy using scattering lenses are unclear. Therefore, this study investigates the short-term effects of scatter lenses on central and peripheral choroidal thickness and axial length, which serve as a biomarker in myopia progression research.
Methods: In total, 23 participants underwent a 60-minute lens wear phase each to five lens conditions: medium peripheral scattering, high peripheral scattering, medium full-field scattering, high full-field scattering and control (clear lens).
FASEB Bioadv
September 2024
Division of Experimental Vitreoretinal Surgery, Centre for Ophthalmology, Institute for Ophthalmic Research University Medical Center, Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen Tuebingen Germany.
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a severe retinal disease in premature infants characterized by pathological neovascularization, obliteration of retinal vessels and increased vessel tortuosity. Currently, there are no completely satisfactory treatments for ROP. Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF), a potent inhibitor of angiogenesis, appears late in gestation and its deficiency may be linked to development of ROP.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeuropsychobiology
December 2024
Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Introduction: Light is a key factor in moderating human alertness, both subjective and objective. However, the methodology applies in research on the effects of exposure to light of different wavelengths and intensities on objective and subjective alertness varies greatly and evidence on objective alertness in particular is still inconclusive. Thus, the present, highly standardized within-subject laboratory study on N = 44 healthy males explored how LED light of different intensities (dim vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElife
October 2024
Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
The retina transforms patterns of light into visual feature representations supporting behaviour. These representations are distributed across various types of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), whose spatial and temporal tuning properties have been studied extensively in many model organisms, including the mouse. However, it has been difficult to link the potentially nonlinear retinal transformations of natural visual inputs to specific ethological purposes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Vis
September 2024
Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Contrast processing is suggested to interact with eye growth and myopia development. A novel contrast-reducing myopia control lens design decreases image contrast and was shown to slow myopia progression. Limited insights exist regarding neural visual processing following adaptation to image contrast reduction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElife
September 2024
Department of Ophthalmology, Byers Eye Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, United States.
Color is an important visual feature that informs behavior, and the retinal basis for color vision has been studied across various vertebrate species. While many studies have investigated how color information is processed in visual brain areas of primate species, we have limited understanding of how it is organized beyond the retina in other species, including most dichromatic mammals. In this study, we systematically characterized how color is represented in the primary visual cortex (V1) of mice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Mol Sci
July 2024
Ramon Castroviejo Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
In Alzheimer's disease (AD), transgenic mouse models have established links between abnormalities in the retina and those in the brain. is a murine, humanized AD model that replicates several pathological features observed in patients with AD. Research has focused on obtaining quantitative parameters from optical coherence tomography (OCT) in AD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS Comput Biol
July 2024
Institute for Ophthalmic Research and Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany.
Neural population responses in sensory systems are driven by external physical stimuli. This stimulus-response relationship is typically characterized by receptive fields, which have been estimated by neural system identification approaches. Such models usually require a large amount of training data, yet, the recording time for animal experiments is limited, giving rise to epistemic uncertainty for the learned neural transfer functions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBr J Ophthalmol
July 2024
Oregon Health and Science University Casey Eye Institute, Portland, Oregon, USA
NPJ Digit Med
July 2024
Ludwig Maximilian University, Operative, Preventative and Pediatric Dentistry and Periodontology, Munich, Germany.
Given the current state of medical artificial intelligence (AI) and perceptions towards it, collaborative systems are becoming the preferred choice for clinical workflows. This work aims to address expert interaction with medical AI support systems to gain insight towards how these systems can be better designed with the user in mind. As eye tracking metrics have been shown to be robust indicators of usability, we employ them for evaluating the usability and user interaction with medical AI support systems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiomolecules
July 2024
Ramon Castroviejo Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) may manifest retinal changes preceding brain pathology. A transversal case-control study utilized spectral-domain OCT angiography (SD-OCTA) and Angio-Tool software 0.6a to assess retinal vascular structures and OCT for inner and outer retina thickness in the AD model at 6, 9, 12, 15, 17, and 20 months old.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRetin Cases Brief Rep
July 2024
Department for Ophthalmology, University Eye Clinic, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
Front Ophthalmol (Lausanne)
March 2024
University Eye Hospital, Center for Ophthalmology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Purpose: To investigate age-dependent wall to lumen ratio (WLR) reference values for healthy individuals in adaptive optics imaging (AO). WLR serves as an objective, dimensionless parameter for the evaluation of structural changes in vessels caused by conditions like arterial hypertension, diabetes or vascular stenosis.
Methods: 50 right eyes of healthy individuals were examined by adaptive optics imaging.
Front Ophthalmol (Lausanne)
May 2024
University Eye Hospital, Center for Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
Purpose: To determine the structure of the cone photoreceptor mosaic in the macula in eyes with retinitis pigmentosa related to Usher syndrome using adaptive optics fundus (AO) imaging and to correlate these findings with those of the standard clinical diagnostics.
Methods: Ten patients with a genetically confirmed retinitis pigmentosa in Usher syndrome due to biallelic variants in MYO7A or USH2A were enrolled in the study. All patients underwent a complete ophthalmological examination including best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) with fundus autofluorescence photography (FAF), full-field (ffERG) and multifocal electroretinography (mfERG) and Adaptive Optics Flood Illuminated Ophthalmoscopy (AO, rtx1™, Imagine Eyes, Orsay, France).
Ophthalmologie
June 2024
Department for Ophthalmology, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Am J Ophthalmol
November 2024
University Eye Hospital, Center for Ophthalmology, Eberhard Karls University (J.P.B., L.B., K.S., L.K.), Tübingen, Germany; Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Center for Ophthalmology, Eberhard Karls University (L.K.), Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address:
Purpose: The purpose of our study was to assess the phenotypic and genotypic spectrum in a large cohort of patients with PRPF31-associated retinal dystrophy.
Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Methods: In this retrospective chart review study, we collected cross-sectional data on the phenotype and genotype of patients with PRPF31-associated retinal dystrophy from the clinics for inherited retinal dystrophies at the University of Tuebingen and the local RetDis database and biobank.