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.

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 …