Ocular stroke, i.e., the thromboembolism of the visual system is a syndrome which causes a mostly irreversible, painless, unilateral, complete loss of vision that develops over the course of a few minutes or hours and which, over time, will affect the other eye as well. The condition ...
Pathologies affecting the optic nerve and the retina are one of the major causes of blindness. These diseases include age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic retinopathy (DR) and glaucoma, among others. Also, there are genetic disorders that affect the retina causing visual impairment. ...
the innermost coat of the posterior part of the eyeball that receives the image produced by the lens, is continuous with the optic nerve, and consists of several layers, one of which contains the rods and cones that are sensitive to light. ...
The results indicated that scleral properties had an important impact on the biomechanics of the rat optic nerve. Scleral thickness, scleral fiber arrangement, scleral fiber hardness, and scleral matrix hardness were the most influential parameters on the biomechanics of the optic nerve. So, for ...
The condition of the jawbone can also affect the distribution of nerves. Anatomical factors The presence of teeth and the intraosseous canal makes the jawbone unique compared to other bones, and also affects nerve distribution. The mandibular canal is a compact bone canal in the cancellous bone of...
Finally, testosterone treatment was also shown to favourably affect the immune system by inducing decreasing CD4+ T cell percentage and increasing natural killer (NK) cells. In addition, peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBMC) production of IL-2 was significantly decreased while transformin growth factor ...
Others, however, are serious enough to cause damage to the eye and even blindness. Conjunctivitis is among the most common diseases that affect the eye. This condition causes the affected eye to become red, inflamed, and itchy. It may also cause the eyelids to swell and emit a discharge. ...
A variety of disease processes can affect the retina and/or the optic nerve, including vascular or ischemic disease, inflammatory or infectious disease, and degenerative disease. These disease processes may selectively damage certain parts of the retina or optic nerve, and the specific areas that ...
7 Clearly, pathogenic variants that induce complete loss of function may be lethal to fetuses of both sexes; however, a number of these pathogenic variants—less severe, or occurring in less-essential genes—cause at least 533 X-linked diseases8 that affect males more severely.8 Rather than ...
Neurological autoimmune diseases (NADs) are organ specific ADs that affect the central or peripheral nervous system. Although these diseases are well-categorized, some of their manifestations are found in non-neurological conditions, thus hindering the effort to differentiate them from either systemic or...