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Retinal optogenetic therapies: clinical criteria for candidacy.
Clinical genetics - 1 Aug 2013
Jacobson S G, Sumaroka A, Luo X, Cideciyan A V
Abstract excerpt
Severe blinding retinal degenerative diseases have been without treatments that could improve vision until recently. Gene therapy has been in clinical trials for certain inherited retinopathies in which photoreceptors are retained despite severe visual loss. Optogenetics is being discussed for retinal diseases in which there is severe visual loss and nearly complete photoreceptor cell death. As a retinal therapy,...
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