Retinal Degeneration (IMAGE)

University of Oxford

Retinal Degeneration

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Prevention of retinal degeneration using CNTF gene therapy applied to one eye of a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa, which also has fluorescent cones that can be counted. At 8 weeks (PW8) both eyes appear similar, but by 30 weeks retinal pigment changes can be seen in the sham injected eye (c) as the degeneration progresses with all cones lost (d). In contrast, the CNTF treated eye (g, h) has a virtually unchanged fundal appearance and over 50 percent of cones surviving (from Lipinski et al., 2015).

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University of Oxford/ Robert MacLaren

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