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SUBMITTER: Horton JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4515765 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Horton Jonathan C JC Parker Alicia B AB Botelho James V JV Duncan Jacque L JL
Scientific reports 20150727
Photoreceptors are damaged in many common eye diseases, such as macular degeneration, retinal detachment, and retinitis pigmentosa. The development of methods to promote the repair or replacement of affected photoreceptors is a major goal of vision research. In this context, it would be useful to know whether photoreceptors are capable of undergoing some degree of spontaneous regeneration after injury. We report a subject who lost retinal function in a wide zone around the optic disc, giving ris ...[more]