Measures of function and structure to determine phenotypic features, natural history, and treatment outcomes in inherited retinal diseases

AV Cideciyan, AK Krishnan, AJ Roman… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are at the forefront of innovative gene-specific treatments
because of the causation by single genes, the availability of microsurgical access for …

Diurnal rodents as pertinent animal models of human retinal physiology and pathology

DM Verra, BS Sajdak, DK Merriman, D Hicks - Progress in Retinal and Eye …, 2020 - Elsevier
This presentation will survey the retinal architecture, advantages, and limitations of several
lesser-known rodent species that provide a useful diurnal complement to rats and mice …

Atlas of human retinal pigment epithelium organelles significant for clinical imaging

A Pollreisz, M Neschi, KR Sloan… - … & visual science, 2020 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose: To quantify organelles impacting imaging in the cell body and intact apical
processes of human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), including melanosomes, lipofuscin …

Volumetric reconstruction of a human retinal pigment epithelial cell reveals specialized membranes and polarized distribution of organelles

M Lindell, D Kar, A Sedova, YJ Kim… - … & Visual Science, 2023 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose: Despite the centrality of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) in vision and
retinopathy our picture of RPE morphology is incomplete. With a volumetric reconstruction of …

Noninvasive imaging of the tree shrew eye: wavefront analysis and retinal imaging with correlative histology

BS Sajdak, AE Salmon, JA Cava, KP Allen… - Experimental eye …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tree shrews are small mammals with excellent vision and are closely related to primates.
They have been used extensively as a model for studying refractive development, myopia …

Volume electron microscopy reveals human retinal mitochondria that align with reflective bands in optical coherence tomography

D Kar, YJ Kim, O Packer, ME Clark, D Cao… - Biomedical Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Mitochondria are candidate reflectivity signal sources in optical coherence tomography
(OCT) retinal imaging. Here, we use deep-learning-assisted volume electron microscopy of …

Generation of lens progenitor cells and lentoid bodies from pluripotent stem cells: Novel tools for human lens development and ocular disease etiology

A Cvekl, MJ Camerino - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
In vitro differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into specialized tissues and
organs represents a powerful approach to gain insight into those cellular and molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating seasonal changes of cone photoreceptor structure in the 13-lined ground squirrel

BS Sajdak, AE Salmon, KM Litts, C Wells, KP Allen… - Vision research, 2019 - Elsevier
Cone photoreceptors of the 13-lined ground squirrel (13-LGS) undergo reversible structural
changes during hibernation, including cone outer segment disc degeneration and inner …

Interspecies variation of outer retina and choriocapillaris imaged with optical coherence tomography

P Soukup, P Maloca, B Altmann… - … & visual science, 2019 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to assess with spectral-domain optical coherence
tomography (OCT) the interspecies variation of outer retinal morphology and identification of …

[HTML][HTML] Ground squirrel–A cool model for a bright vision

W Li - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2020 - Elsevier
The great evolutionary biologist, Theodosius Dobzhansky, once said,“Nothing in biology
makes sense except in the light of evolution.” Vision, no doubt, is a poster child for the work …