| Retinal Degeneration: Clinical and Laboratory Applications Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Anderson, Robert E. (Editor), Hollyfield, Joe G. (Editor), Lavail, Matthew M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1461362946 ISBN-13: 9781461362944 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Ophthalmology - Science | Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics - Science | Life Sciences - Botany |
| Dewey: 617.73 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 7" W x 10" (1.45 lbs) 365 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During the last few years, an explosion of infonnation has come from human genetics and molecular and cell biological studies as to the genetic basis for a number of fonns of inherited retinal degenerations. These disorders have plagued mankind for millennia because they take from otherwise healthy individuals the precious gift of sight. The fundamental advances in recent years have identified a number of genes involved in the groups of diseases which hopefully will lead to discoveries that may, in the not too distant future, allow the prevention and possible cure of some of these blinding eye disorders. To foster a forum for discussions of studies on degenerative retinal disorders, we convened a symposium on retinal degenerations in 1984, at the VIth International Congress of Eye Research Meeting, held in Alicante, Spain. Because of the success of this meeting and the subsequent publication, we have since organized a series of biennial satellite meetings on retinal degenerations for the ISER congresses held in Nagoya, Japan (1986), San Francisco (1988) and Helsinki (1990). Each of these satellite symposium on retinal degenerations was accompanied by a published proceedings volume. This volume is the fifth in this series and contains the proceedings of the Sardinia Symposium on Retinal Degeneration held September 15-20, 1992, as a satellite meeting of the 10th International Congress of Eye Research. |
