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Nerve regrowth findings could lead to a potential treatment for a common cause of blindness
Over the course of many experiments, the researchers found that fibronectin seemed to encourage optic nerve cells to regrow. Nerve cells interacting with fibronectin tend to regrow. Nerve cells ...
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Optic nerve head structure in glaucoma: Astrocytes as mediators of axonal damage
The hypothesis that it disrupts the function of retinal ganglion cell axons by increasing mechanical forces on the lamina cribrosa of the optic nerve head has received considerable experimental ...
Medscape16y
Bilateral Optic Disc Swelling as the Presenting Sign of Pheochromocytoma in a Child
The patient had an uneventful postoperative course and was consequently discharged ... more than 1 disc area away from the optic nerve head. The right macula and a bleb of serous retinal ...