Management of Ophthalmologic Disorders, Including Macular Degeneration
申请人:Rando Robert R.
公开号:US20090227649A1
公开(公告)日:2009-09-10
A drug may be used in the preparation of a medicament for the treatment or prevention of an ophthalmologic disorder, wherein the drug inhibits, antagonizes, or short-circuits the visual cycle at a step of the visual cycle that occurs outside a disc of a rod photoreceptor cell.
METHODS FOR ASSESSING A PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE OF A MAMMALIAN RETINA
申请人:Imanishi Yoshikazu
公开号:US20100262016A1
公开(公告)日:2010-10-14
In one aspect the present invention provides methods for assessing a physiological state of a mammalian retina in vivo, the methods of this aspect of the invention each include the steps of (a) irradiating a portion of a mammalian retina, in vivo, with light having a wavelength in the range of from 600 nm to 1000 nm at an intensity sufficient to stimulate two-photon-induced fluorescence in the retina; and (b) assessing a physiological state of the retina by analyzing the fluorescence.