Retinal Degenerations: Biology, Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Coping with retinal degeneration : a patient's view / Gordon Cousins and James Cape -- Epidemiology of age-related macular degeneration early in the 21st century / Jie Jin Wang, Paul Mitchell, and Ronald Klein -- Leber congenital amaurosis : a hereditary childhood form of blindness and a model to elucidate retinal physiology and development / Robert K. Koenekoop -- Macular degeneration : aging changes and novel therapies / Peter E. Liggett and Alejandro J. Lavaque -- Stargardt disease : from gene discovery to therapy / Rando Allikmets -- X-linked juvenile retinoschisis / Bernhard H. F. Weber and Ulrich Kellner -- Retinal degeneration in Usher syndrome / David S. Williams -- Mouse models of retinitis pigmentosa / Bo Chang ... [et al.] -- The impact of diabetes on neuronal, glial, and vascular cells of the retina : implications for the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy / Sylvia B. Smith -- Statins and age-related maculopathy / Gerald McGwin, Jr. and Cynthia Owsley -- The role of drusen in macular degeneration and new methods of quantification / R. Theodore Smith and Umer F. Ahmad -- RPE lipofuscin : formation, properites, and relevance to retinal degeneration / Janet R. Sparrow -- Genetic modifiers that affect phenotypic expression of retinal diseases / Malia M. Edwards ... [et al.] -- X-linked retinal dystrophies and microtubular functions within the retina / Alan F. Wright and Xinhua Shu -- Synaptic remodeling in retinal degeneration / You-Wei Peng and Fulton Wong --