Right Now: Biking In The Foothills
Magnificent Frigatebird
Axenfeld Reigers Syndrome
Patients with Axenfeld Reigers Syndrome, named after Theodor Axenfeld is an autosomal dominant disorder that will present with irido corneal adhesions as well as often, glaucomatous presentations. Photographs were made by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Centerwith a Goldmann 3-mirror lens with a Zeiss photo slitlamp and a NikonD-X camera.
Laughing Gull
Penetrating Corneal Injury Pigment
Photographer: Paula F. Morris, CRA, FOPS Moran Eye Center. FOPS diffuse slit lamp photograph of pigment growth following penetrating corneal laceration – 6 y/o patient. Image taken a using a Zeiss clinical slit-lamp biomicroscope with a Nikon D1S digital back at 16 mag. This image (#1 Alien) won First Place, Photo Slit Lamp Biomicrography Division, …
ARVO, 2011
ARVO 2011 Snapshots
ARVO 2011 has come and gone. Its taken me a couple of weeks to get through the post ARVO chaos and get caught up on my own work before posting some of the snapshots, but here they are.
Brown Noddy
Notable Paper: Tauroursodeoxycholic Acid (TUDCA) Prevents Retinal Degeneration in Transgenic P23H Rats
This paper in IOVS, “Tauroursodeoxycholic Acid (TUDCA) Prevents Retinal Degeneration in Transgenic P23H Rats” by Laura Fernández-Sánchez, Pedro Lax, Isabel Pinilla, José Martín-Nieto and friend of Webvision, Nicolás Cuenca, presents a compelling story that TUDCA preserves ERG responses in the retinas of treated animals vs. control animals revealing lower numbers of photoreceptor cell death and preservation of …