Cataracts

YC Liu, M Wilkins, T Kim, B Malyugin, JS Mehta - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
An estimated 95 million people worldwide are affected by cataract. Cataract still remains the
leading cause of blindness in middle-income and low-income countries. With the …

Small heat shock proteins: Simplicity meets complexity

M Haslbeck, S Weinkauf, J Buchner - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - jbc.org
Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are a ubiquitous and ancient family of ATP-independent
molecular chaperones. A key characteristic of sHsps is that they exist in ensembles of iso …

An artificial intelligence platform for the multihospital collaborative management of congenital cataracts

E Long, H Lin, Z Liu, X Wu, L Wang, J Jiang… - Nature biomedical …, 2017 - nature.com
Using artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent and treat diseases is an ultimate goal in
computational medicine. Although AI has been developed for screening and assisted …

Posterior capsule opacification: What's in the bag?

IM Wormstone, YM Wormstone, AJO Smith… - Progress in Retinal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cataract, a clouding of the lens, is the most common cause of blindness in the world. It has a
marked impact on the wellbeing and productivity of individuals and has a major economic …

The lens epithelium as a major determinant in the development, maintenance, and regeneration of the crystalline lens

Z Liu, S Huang, Y Zheng, T Zhou, L Hu, L **ong… - Progress in retinal and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The crystalline lens is a transparent and refractive biconvex structure formed by lens
epithelial cells (LECs) and lens fibers. Lens opacity, also known as cataracts, is the leading …

[HTML][HTML] Penetration enhancers in ocular drug delivery

RV Moiseev, PWJ Morrison, F Steele… - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
There are more than 100 recognized disorders of the eye. This makes the development of
advanced ocular formulations an important topic in pharmaceutical science. One of the ways …

Mutations and mechanisms in congenital and age-related cataracts

A Shiels, JF Hejtmancik - Experimental eye research, 2017 - Elsevier
The crystalline lens plays an important role in the refractive vision of vertebrates by
facilitating variable fine focusing of light onto the retina. Loss of lens transparency, or …

[HTML][HTML] Self-renewing monolayer of primary colonic or rectal epithelial cells

Y Wang, M DiSalvo, DB Gunasekara, J Dutton… - Cellular and molecular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Three-dimensional organoid culture has fundamentally changed the in
vitro study of intestinal biology enabling novel assays; however, its use is limited because of …

Small heat shock proteins, big impact on protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease

JM Webster, AL Darling, VN Uversky… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Misfolding, aggregation, and aberrant accumulation of proteins are central components in
the progression of neurodegenerative disease. Cellular molecular chaperone systems …

[HTML][HTML] Cataract: advances in surgery and whether surgery remains the only treatment in future

X Chen, J Xu, X Chen, K Yao - Advances in Ophthalmology Practice and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Cataract is the world's leading eye disease that causes blindness. The
prevalence of cataract aged 40 years and older is approximately 11.8%–18.8%. Currently …