Same cell death pathway involved in three forms of blindness, study finds
Friday, January 17, 2014 - 14:50
in Health & Medicine
A research team used canine disease models to closely examine how retinal gene activity varied during the progression of three different forms of inherited vision disease. Their results turned up an unexpected commonality: Early on in each of the diseases, genes involved in the same specific pathway of cell death appeared to be activated. These findings point to possible interventions that could curb vision loss across a variety of inherited retinal diseases.