Word: retina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tomboy, and my father spent countless hours playing catch with me. But he never expected that there would be organized softball for girls. Of course, there was a part of him that overworried about my infrastructure. Girls have babies, after all! When my brother got a detached retina playing tackle, my parents didn't blanch. One day I came home with a bloody nose, and I thought my father was going to pass...
Theoretically, two other problems could arise. The first: tumors in blood vessels. So far, none of the animals tested over seven years has developed abnormal growths. The second: impaired vision, the hypothetical result of too much of the protein, especially in diabetics, promoting excessive blood-vessel growth in the retina. No problem...
...list goes on to include virtually any disorder that involves the loss of normal cells: stroke, muscular dystrophy, spinal-cord injury, kidney or liver disease, blindness caused by degeneration of the retina. Stem cells could also provide drug companies with a limitless supply of normal human tissues to use in testing the toxicity of new drugs. "This is a fairly unique resource," says Johns Hopkins team leader John Gearhart, in a masterpiece of understatement...
...years ago, King began to design an inhibitor to prevent this form of PKC from constricting blood flow and causing vessel leakage in the retina...
Many people--almost 8 to 10 percent of the malepopulation--are born without normal color vision.This form of color blindness is due to defects inthe retina...