Some fish use active photolocation: Their eyes emit light to detect predators or pray in this spotlight. In this Journal Club, Prof. Nico Michiels from the University of Tübingen will talk about his fascinating journey in which he has discovered this phenomenon.
In this video, Prof Volker Enzmann highlights an important topic: the relationship between retinal damage and optomotor behavior output is not necessarily linear, and it needs to be established for individual disease models. In the case of laser-induced local retinal damage, the optomotor behavior is only weakly affected, reflecting the surprising robustness of this reflex.
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Neuroinflammation amplifies neural damage caused by genetic disorders or aging. Groh et al show that neuroinflammation has deleterious consequences for the optic nerve, and disease progression can be monitored with the OptoDrum.
At this year’s ARVO, one of our OptoDrum users – Ms Anna Potenski from Columbia University – is presenting a poster on the topic of “Elucidating endothelial caspase-9 signaling pathways in retinal vein occlusion” containing OptoDrum data.
In this video of our series “OptoDrum Applications” Prof. Volker Enzmann from the University of Bern presents research with the Sodium Iodate Model (NaIO3) of Retinal Degeneration in mice.
The lot has now fallen: We have a winner for our Advent calendar raffle from December 2020 where you could win one of our DarkAdapt boxes.
Watch the interview with our new collaboration partner Dr. Jeff Jamison, Director of In Vivo Pharmacology at Experimentica Ltd, and developer of AcuiSee.
In this recent paper, Berve et al show with our OptoDrum the harm of neuroinflammation on the visual system, and the benefits of proper treatments.
Watch Striatech’s Expert to Expert Interview with Prof. Botond Roska from the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB).
