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Special focus is highlighted in the areas of Mechanisms of Photoreceptor Degeneration and Cell Death (extremely important because very little is known how or why photoreceptors die in these diseases, despite an abundance of genetic information), Age-Related Macular Degeneration (with several novel approaches to its analysis), Usher Syndrome (the most severe form of retinitis pigmentosa, which includes an early or congenital loss of hearing along with blindness), and Gene Therapy. In addition, the section on Basic Science Related to Retinal Degeneration is particularly strong with several laboratories reporting on new discoveries in the area of outer segment phagocytosis, a key component of photoreceptor-retinal pigment epithelial cell interactions in normal and degenerating retinas.
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Book Title: Retinal Degenerations
Book Subtitle: Mechanisms and Experimental Therapy
Editors: Matthew M. LaVail, Joe G. Hollyfield, Robert E. Anderson
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0067-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-47781-2Published: 31 October 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-4909-9Published: 11 February 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-0067-4Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 467
Topics: Ophthalmology, Neurology, Neurosciences, Epidemiology, Tree Biology