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Before Retinal Cells Die, They Regenerate, Penn Vet Blindness Study Finds

March 18, 2016
Neuroscience Retina Retinitis Pigmentosa
Basic Research
Grantee

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania showed that in a form of canine blindness, retinal cells continue to differentiate for a period of time early in a dog’s life before overwhelming cell death causes the retina to degenerate. The work, funded in part by NEI, is reported in the journal BMC Genomics.

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