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

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March 18, 2016

Neuroscience Retina Retinitis Pigmentosa

Basic Research

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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.