Multimodal brain and retinal imaging of dopaminergic degeneration in Parkinson disease

JY Lee, A Martin-Bastida, A Murueta-Goyena… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Parkinson disease (PD) is a progressive disorder characterized by dopaminergic
neurodegeneration in the brain. The development of parkinsonism is preceded by a long …

Past, present and future role of retinal imaging in neurodegenerative disease

AH Kashani, S Asanad, JW Chan, MB Singer… - Progress in retinal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Retinal imaging technology is rapidly advancing and can provide ever-increasing amounts
of information about the structure, function and molecular composition of retinal tissue in …

Retinal layers in Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography studies

A Chrysou, NM Jansonius, T van Laar - Parkinsonism & related disorders, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Patients with Parkinson's disease experience visual symptoms,
partially originating from retinal changes. Since 2011, multiple case-control studies using …

Insulin resistance exacerbates Alzheimer disease via multiple mechanisms

Z Wei, J Koya, SE Reznik - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that accounts for 60–70%
of dementia and is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. The pathogenesis …

Design and implementation of a low-cost, portable OCT system

S Kim, M Crose, WJ Eldridge, B Cox… - Biomedical optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a widely used biomedical imaging tool, primarily in
ophthalmology to diagnose and stage retinal diseases. In order to increase access for a …

Retinal thinning associates with nigral dopaminergic loss in de novo Parkinson disease

J Ahn, JY Lee, TW Kim, EJ Yoon, S Oh, YK Kim, JM Kim… - Neurology, 2018 - neurology.org
Objective To analyze the relationship between retinal thinning and nigral dopaminergic loss
in de novo Parkinson disease (PD). Methods Forty-nine patients with PD and 54 age …

Retinal microvascular network alterations: potential biomarkers of cerebrovascular and neural diseases

D Cabrera DeBuc, GM Somfai… - American Journal of …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Increasing evidence suggests that the conditions of retinal microvessels are indicators to a
variety of cerebrovascular, neurodegenerative, psychiatric, and developmental diseases …

Central retina changes in Parkinson's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

L Huang, D Zhang, J Ji, Y Wang, R Zhang - Journal of neurology, 2021 - Springer
Background and purpose Central retina imaging is important for early Parkinson's disease
(PD) recognition. We aimed to investigate central retina changes using spectral domain …

The retina as an early biomarker of neurodegeneration in a rotenone-induced model of Parkinson's disease: evidence for a neuroprotective effect of rosiglitazone in …

EM Normando, BM Davis, L De Groef, S Nizari… - Acta neuropathologica …, 2016 - Springer
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease
worldwide, affecting 1% of the population over 65 years of age. Dopaminergic cell death in …

Detecting retinal cell stress and apoptosis with DARC: Progression from lab to clinic

MF Cordeiro, D Hill, R Patel, P Corazza… - Progress in Retinal and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract DARC (Detection of Apoptosing Retinal Cells) is a retinal imaging technology that
has been developed within the last 2 decades from basic laboratory science to Phase 2 …