Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a combination of neuropathy and various degrees of peripheral
vasculopathy in diabetic patients resulting in lower extremity infection, ulcer formation, and …

Objective Use of the frailty index to measure an accumulation of deficits has been proven a
valuable method for identifying elderly people at risk for increased vulnerability, disease …

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a vasoproliferative disorder of the retina and a leading
cause of visual impairment and childhood blindness worldwide. The disease is …

Cardiovascular and metabolic disease (CVMD) is becoming increasingly prevalent in
developed and develo** countries with high morbidity and mortality. In recent years …

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness. It has long been regarded as
vascular disease, but work in the past years has shown abnormalities also in the neural …

Diabetic retinopathy (DR), a leading cause of vision loss and blindness worldwide, is
caused by retinal neurovascular unit dysfunction, and its cellular pathology involves at least …

Diabetic retinopathy is a neurovascular complication of diabetes and the main cause of
vision loss in adults. Glial cells have a key role in maintenance of central nervous system …

The fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family is composed of 18 secreted signaling proteins
consisting of canonical FGFs and endocrine FGFs that activate four receptor tyrosine …

The light‐sensitive photoreceptors in the retina are extremely metabolically demanding and
have the highest density of mitochondria of any cell in the body. Both physiological and …

At preterm birth, the retina is incompletely vascularized. Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is
initiated by the postnatal suppression of physiological retinal vascular development that …