Soft drusen in age-related macular degeneration: biology and targeting via the oil spill strategies

CA Curcio - Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2018 - iovs.arvojournals.org
AMD is a major cause of legal blindness in older adults approachable through
multidisciplinary research involving human tissues and patients. AMD is a vascular …

Geographic atrophy: clinical features and potential therapeutic approaches

FG Holz, EC Strauss, S Schmitz-Valckenberg… - Ophthalmology, 2014 - Elsevier
In contrast to wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), where loss of vision is typically
acute and treatment leads to a relatively rapid reduction in retinal fluid and subsequent …

Age-related macular degeneration: A two-level model hypothesis

MP Rozing, JA Durhuus, MK Nielsen, Y Subhi… - Progress in retinal and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Age-related diseases, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), are of growing
importance in a world where population ageing has become a dominant global trend …

Clinical applications of fundus autofluorescence in retinal disease

M Yung, MA Klufas, D Sarraf - International journal of retina and vitreous, 2016 - Springer
Fundus autofluorescence (FAF) is a non-invasive retinal imaging modality used in clinical
practice to provide a density map of lipofuscin, the predominant ocular fluorophore, in the …

Delayed rod-mediated dark adaptation is a functional biomarker for incident early age-related macular degeneration

C Owsley, G McGwin Jr, ME Clark, GR Jackson… - Ophthalmology, 2016 - Elsevier
Purpose To examine whether slowed rod-mediated dark adaptation (DA) in adults with
normal macular health at baseline is associated with the incidence of age-related macular …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative autofluorescence and cell density maps of the human retinal pigment epithelium

T Ach, C Huisingh, G McGwin… - … & visual science, 2014 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Purpose.: Lipofuscin (LF) accumulation within RPE cells is considered pathogenic in AMD.
To test whether LF contributes to RPE cell loss in aging and to provide a cellular basis for …

[HTML][HTML] The clinical relevance of visualising the peripheral retina

N Quinn, L Csincsik, E Flynn, CA Curcio, S Kiss… - Progress in retinal and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent developments in imaging technologies now allow the documentation, qualitative and
quantitative evaluation of peripheral retinal lesions. As wide field retinal imaging, capturing …

Mitochondria as potential targets and initiators of the blue light hazard to the retina

JX Tao, WC Zhou, XG Zhu - Oxidative medicine and cellular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Commercially available white light‐emitting diodes (LEDs) have an intense emission in the
range of blue light, which has raised a range of public concerns about their potential risks as …

[HTML][HTML] Emixustat hydrochloride for geographic atrophy secondary to age-related macular degeneration: a randomized clinical trial

PJ Rosenfeld, PU Dugel, FG Holz, JS Heier… - Ophthalmology, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose To determine whether emixustat hydrochloride (emixustat) reduces the rate of
enlargement of geographic atrophy (GA) compared with placebo in subjects with age …

The role of lipoxidation in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy

J Augustine, EP Troendle, P Barabas… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Lipids can undergo modification as a result of interaction with reactive oxygen species
(ROS). For example, lipid peroxidation results in the production of a wide variety of highly …