126 results about "Gangliocyte" patented technology

Methods for analyzing retinal tomography maps to detect patterns of optic nerve diseases such as glaucoma, optic neuritis, anterior ischemic optic neuropathy are disclosed in this invention. The areas of mapping include the macula centered on the fovea, and the region centered on the optic nerve head. The retinal layers that are analyzed include the nerve fiber, ganglion cell, inner plexiform and inner nuclear layers and their combinations. The overall retinal thickness can also be analyzed. Pattern analysis are applied to the maps to create single parameter for diagnosis and progression analysis of glaucoma and optic neuropathy.

A method, device and system for stimulating visual tissue, typically in the retina or visual cortex, to achieve an artificial percept of light or image. The method includes providing stimulating electrodes suitable for placement in proximity to the visual tissue and generating a series of short-duration stimulation signals having a duration of less than about 0.5 milliseconds each. The short-duration stimulation signals are applied through the stimulating electrodes with varying frequencies that are substantially matched to a spiking range of frequencies of at least one ganglion cell for perceiving brightness or image.

The present invention relates to compositions and methods, in particular to methods based on systemic administration of scAAV, for delivering genes to cells of the retina of mammals, and in particular to photoreceptor cells, ganglion cells, glial cells, inner nuclear layer cells or cells of the retinal pigmented epithelium.

The invention provides compositions and methods of treating subjects afflicted with a photoreceptor disorder. Methods for treating a subject suffering from a disorder characterized by photoreceptor cell degeneration are provided, wherein a gene encoding a photosensitive protein is introduced into a retinal cell of a subject. In one aspect of the invention, the retinal cells which receive the photosensitive protein include non-photoreceptor cells such as horizontal cells, amacrine cells, bipolar cells, and ganglion cells.

The invention provides a retinal prosthetic method and device that mimics the responses of the retina to a broad range of stimuli, including natural stimuli. Ganglion cell firing patterns are generated in response to a stimulus using a set of encoders, interfaces, and transducers, where each transducer targets a single cell or a small number of cells. The conversion occurs on the same time scale as that carried out by the normal retina. In addition, aspects of the invention may be used with robotic or other mechanical devices, where processing of visual information is required. The encoders may be adjusted over time with aging or the progression of a disease.

The present invention relates to methods of treating or preventing retinal ganglion cell (RGC) death and/or glaucoma using modulators of neurotrophic receptors that comprise β-turn peptidomimetic cyclic compounds or derivatives thereof. The neurotrophic receptor modulators can be used alone, in combination and/or in conjunction with one or more other compounds, molecules or drugs that treat or prevent ocular hypertension, RGC death and/or glaucoma.

Disclosed herein is the treatment of vision loss in a mammal by transplanting an effective amount of hNT-Neuron cells. The treatment can be accomplished by injecting the cells into the retinal area of the eye. Additionally, the cells can be injected into the visual cortex of the brain. Conditions to be treated are vision loss due to optic nerve damage, including glaucoma, optic nerve sheath meningioma and glioma, Graves' ophthalmopathy, benign or malignant orbital tumors, metastatic lesions, tumors arising from the adjacent paranasal sinuses or middle cranial fossa, giant pituitary adenomas, brain tumors or abscesses, cerebral trauma or hemorrhage, meningitis, arachnoidal adhesions, pseudotumor cerebri, cavernous sinus thrombosis, dural sinus thrombosis, encephalitis, space-occupying brain lesions, severe hypertensive disease or pulmonary emphysema.

The invention provides methods for treating ocular diseases using a recombinant vehicle to express a protein useful in the treatment of ocular disease, with particular preference for use of neurotrophin-4 (NT4) for targeting subpopulations of cells in the retina. A genetically engineered gene transfer vector containing sequences encoding a growth factor such as neurotrophin-4 (NT4) is used to transduce cells of the retinal ganglion cell (RGC) layer, in situ, via administration of the vector intravitreally. Accordingly, methods are disclosed for treating subjects in need thereof by therapeutic protein delivery via a recombinant expression vector, including rescue of photoreceptors by targeting the RGC layer subpopulation of retinal cells.

The present invention relates to taurine or taurine-like substances for the prevention and treatment of a disease associated with retinal ganglion cell degeneration. More particularly the invention relates to a substance selected from the group consisting of taurine, a taurine precursor, a taurine metabolite, a taurine derivative, a taurine analog and a substance required for the taurine biosynthesis for the prevention and treatment of a disease associated with retinal ganglion cell degeneration.

The present invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising, or consisting of, the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:1 or a nucleic acid sequence of at least 400 bp having at least 80% identity to said sequence of SEQ ID NO:1, wherein said isolated nucleic acid molecule specifically leads to the expression in direction selective retinal ganglion cells of a gene when operatively linked to a nucleic acid sequence coding for said gene.

An apparatus for in vivo electroporating a plasmid into a retina of any eye includes a first electrode with a first polarity of voltage placed in contact with a cornea of the eye, a second electrode with an opposite second voltage at least in part behind the retina, and a pulsed voltage source for providing a pulsed DC voltage with an optimized field strength amplitude, frequency, number of pulses, group repetition rate and duration of pulse and group repetition, which are optimized for transfection of the channelrhodospsin-2 (ChR2) gene into the retinal ganglion cells. An in vivo method for treating retinal ganglion cells in an eye without use of viral transfection includes the steps of nonviral in vivo delivering a channelrhodospsin-2 (ChR2) gene to target the specific (retinal ganglion) cells of a retina by intravitreous injection of plasmid DNA, electroporating the plasmid into the retina and use of image intensification device for stimulating the retinal ganglion cells with ambient lighting conditions.

A lighting apparatus includes a light emitter that emits a first illumination light as a display illumination light. The optical characteristics of the first illumination light are: a correlated color temperature in a range from 3800 K to 6500 K, inclusive; chromaticity deviation Duv in a range from −9 to 0, inclusive; and an intrinsic photosensitive retinal ganglion cell (ipRGC) stimulus level of at least 0.6, the ipRGC stimulus level being a value standardized by setting an ipRGC stimulus level of light emitted from a D65 light source to 1.

The invention relates to a recombinant adeno-associated virus vector. The recombinant adeno-associated virus vector comprises constitutively active human Nrf2 (Nrf2 (CA)), a CMV promoter/enhancer, beta-globin intron for increasing gene expression, human growth hormone poly (A) tail sequence, etc. The invention also relates to a preparation method of the recombinant adeno-associated virus vector and the application of the recombinant adeno-associated virus vector or a composition containing the recombinant adeno-associated virus vector in preparing a medicine for treating glaucoma retinal ganglion cell denaturation. The recombinant adeno-associated virus vector provided by the invention can obviously reduce the intraocular pressure of a mouse, increase the survival rate of RGCs of the mouse, and effectively treat glaucoma retinal ganglion cell pathological changes.

Provided herein are compounds of Formula I, compositions comprising an effective amount of a compound of Formula I, and methods for preventing, reducing or treating retinal ganglion cell damage comprising administering an effective amount of a purine derivative to a subject in need thereof.

The invention discloses an intelligent wearing device for vision recovery of a patient with posteriority blindness and a making method thereof. The device comprises microelectrode arrays, a pair of intelligent glasses, earphones, elastic belt buckles and stimulating signal guide soft belts, wherein the microelectrode arrays are arranged in the eyes of the patient; the intelligent glasses, the earphones and the elastic belt buckles are arranged outside the eyes of the patient; the stimulating signal guide soft belts are arranged between the microelectrode arrays and the intelligent glasses. An outside image is shot by a microcamera arranged in front of the intelligent glasses and processed by a control system into a bidirectional electronic impulse signal, and the signal is transmitted by the stimulating signal guide soft belts to the microelectrode arrays arranged between the outermost layers of retinas and choroids to electrically stimulate ganglion cells; optic nerves transmit a biological signal generated by stimulation to a visual area of the cerebral cortex, are recognized by the brain and then make the blind patient restore part of visual performance to an outside object. The intelligent wearing device has the advantages of being good in stimulation effect, safe in use, attractive in appearance and convenient to wear.

The invention relates to eye-protecting and sleep-facilitating healthy glasses. The glasses are characterized in that according to the light transmittance of lenses, the transmittance of a 400-520 nm spectral interval is 10-35%, the transmittance of a 540-569 nm spectral interval is 35-96%, the transmittance of a 570-600 nm spectral interval is 92-97%, and the transmittance of a 600-700 nm spectral interval is 88-93%. The eye-protecting and sleep-facilitating healthy glasses can stop and optimize a spectrum waveband which is sensed by SCN ganglion cells and can stop melatonin secretion or reduce the secretion amount and will not affect normal work and life of people after being worn, wherein the work and life do not contain work and life needing accurate colors; the glasses serve as a means for improving sleep quality of modern human beings and treating or assisting in treating insomnia of patients with sleep disorder and other symptoms.

The invention belongs to the field of pharmacy, and relates to application of sodium valproate in preparation of medicaments for treating or improving optic nerve pathological changes of glaucoma. The in-vitro cell culture experiment and in-vivo animal experiment indicate that sodium valproate with certain concentration can promote retina ganglionic cells (RGCs) cultured in vitro to survive and enhance the extension capacity of the axon, and can lower the expression of proapoptotic gene BAX and promote the RGCs to survive under the conditions of chronic high intraocular pressure, thereby relieving the damage of RGCs. The experiments prove that the sodium valproate can protect the RGCs in the aspects of multiple pathogeneses of glaucoma optic nerve pathological changes, and further more, can be used as an active ingredient for preaprating medicaments for treating glaucoma optic nerve pathological changes, especially medicaments for protecting RGCs. The invention has important application value and favorable social and economic benefits in clinical treatment of glaucoma.

A method of modulating a physiological parameter of a patient is provided. The method includes disabling one or more pre-aortic ganglion cells within a pre-aortic ganglion and improving the physiological parameter. The method further includes destroying a pre-aortic ganglion cell to prevent regeneration.

The present invention provides a method for inducing chronic elevation of intraocular pressure in the eyes of an animal by introducing into the eyes a cross-linking hydrogel, an animal produced by this method, as well as a screening method useful for identifying compounds capable of modulating intraocular pressure as well as for identifying compounds capable of modulating retinal ganglion cell survival and/or regeneration.