A Legacy to Remember
 
This general brochure reviews thirty years of progress of the Retina Research Foundation in the drive to cure retinal disease.  It is an exciting presentation of the Pioneers in Retina and their efforts to provide the understanding, technology and skills required in this important and intricate field and to ensure their understanding and use worldwide.

RRF Newsletter

Published quarterly, this Newsletter includes information on the latest developments in  retinal technology, drugs, and surgical techniques in treating retinal disease. It also highlights those scientists who are making history in this field and recognizes those who have made significant financial contributions to retina research.

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2008 Bibliographies
 

Ramon L. Font and Venkatesh C Prabhakataran, “Histological parameters helpful in recognizing steroid-treated temporal arthritis: an analysis of 35 cases,” Br.J. Opthal. 2007; 91: 204-209.

Maria Del Valle, MD and Ramon L. Font, MD, “Achromobacter Keratopathy,” AAOJournal, Sept. 15, 2008.

Ramon L. Font, MD and Maria Del Valle, MD, “Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma of the orbit. Interesting radiologic-pathologic correlation,” Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Oct. 10, 2008.

Ramon L. Font, MD, Venkatesh c. Prabhakaran MD, Maria Del Valle MD, Defen Shen PhD, Chi-Chao Chan, MD, “ Detection of Helicobacter pylori DNA in ocular adnexal MALT lymphomas: An analysis of 10 cases,” Archives of Ophthalmology, Dec. 2008.

Janghoo Li,, Hamed Jafar-Nejad, Ya-Chich Hsu & Kwang-Wook Choi: “Novel function of the class I bHLH protein Daughterless in the negative regulation of proneural gene expression in the Drosophila eye” European Molecular Biology Organization, August 29, 2008.

Jeffrey M. Gross and Brian D. Perkins, “Zebrafish Mutants as Models for congenital Ocular Disorders in Humans,” 2007 Wiley Interscience, July 21, 2007.

T.W. Hein, Z. Yuan, R.H. Rosa, Jr. Y. Ren and L. Kuo, “Divergent Roles of Nitric Oxide and Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase/Rho Kinase in Vasoreactivity of Human Retinal Arterioles,” Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2008:49.

Travis W. Hein, Zhaoxu Yuan, Wenjuan Xu, Yi Ren, Elizabeth Roberts, Joseph  Newman and Lih Kuo, “Acute retinal ischemia inhibits endothelium-dependent nitric oxide-mediated dilation of retinal arterioles: role of endothelin-1 and superoxide,” The FASEB Journal, 2008:22:732.2.

Valerie A. McLin, Cheng-Hui Hu,Rina Shah and Milan Jamrich, “Expression of complement components coincides with early patterning and organogenesis in Xenopus laevis,” Int. J.Dev. Biol.52: 1123-1133 (2008).

Travis W. Hein, Zhaoxu Yuan, Robert H. Rosa, Jr., Wenjuan Xu, Yi Ren and Lih Kuo, “Requisite Roles of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase and Smooth Muscle Phosphoinosidite 3-Kinase/Rho Kinase in Basomotor Regulation of Human Retinal Arterioles,” 2008 American Heart Association, Inc.

Travis Hein, Yi Ren, Zhaoxu Yuan, Wenjuan Xu, Sonal Somvanshi, Taiji Nagaoka, Akitoshi Yoshida, Lih Kuo, “Functional and Molecular Characterization of the Endothelin System in Retinal Arterioles” IOVS, 08-Nov-2008.

Kathryn L. Pepple, Mardelle Atkins,  Koen Venken, Kari Wellnitz, Mark Harding, Benjamin Frankfort and Graeme Mardon, “Two-step selection of a single R8 photoreceptor: a bistable loop between senseless and rough locks in R8 fate”, Development 135, 4071-4079 (2008) doi:10, 1242/dev.028951.

Richard J. Davis, Mark Harding, Yalda Moayedi, and Graeme Mardon, “Mouse Dach1 and Dach2 are Redundantly Required for Müllerian Duct Development” 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc. genesis 46:205-213.

Paul R. van Ginkel, Soestawatt R. Darjatmoko, Dbruv Sareen, Lalita Subramantan, Saswatt Bhattacharya, Mary J. Lindstrom, Daniel M. Albert and Arthur S. Polans, “ Resveratrol Inhibits Uveal Melanoma Tumor Growth via Early Mitochondrial Dysfunction,” IOVS, April 2008, Vol. 49, No. 4.

Paul R. van Ginkel, Dhruv Sareen, Lalita Subramanian, Quintisha Walker, Soeslawati R. Farjatmoko, Mary J. Lindstrom, Amol Kilkarni, Daniel M. Albert, and Arthur S. Polans,” Resveratrol Inhibits Tumor Growth of Human Neuroblastoma and Mediates Apoptosis by Directly Targeting Mitochondria,” Clin Cancer Res 2007:13 (17) September 1, 2007.

L. Subramanian, P.R. Van Ginkel, S. Darjatmoko, J.J. Lindstrom, S.K. Ghosh, Z Song, R.P. Hsung, G.S. Kwon, D.M. Albert and A.S. Polans, “Block co-polymer micelles of Resveratrol increase options for delivery with improved bioavailability and selective anti-cancer activity,” Submitted to Br. Journal  Cancer.

Dhruv Sareen, Soeslawati R. Darjatmoko, Daniel M. Albert, and Arthur S. Polans, “Mitochondria, Calcium, and Calpain are Key Mediators of Resveratrol-Induced Apoptosis in Breast Cancer, “Molecular Pharmacology,72-1466-1475, Vol. 71, No. 4.

Pang, J.J. Gao, F., Barrow, A, Jacoby, R. and Wu, S.M. (2008) “How do tonic glutamatergic synapses evade receptor desensitization? J. Physiology, 586, 12, 2889-2903.

Barrow, A.J. and Wu, S.M. (2007) “Impedance measurements for cervical cancer diagnosis, Gynecol. Oncol. 107, 40-43.

Adb-El-Barr, M.M., Albini, T.A., Carvounis, P.E., He, F., Manzano, R.P.A., Chevez-Barrios, P., Wensel, T.G., Wu, S.M. and Holz, E.R. “Safety and pharmokinetics of triamcinolone hexacetonide in rabbit eyes.” J of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 26, 3, 197-205.

Wu, S.M. “From retinal circuitry to eye diseases – in memory of Henk Spekreijse. Vision Research, Oct. 29, 2008.

Zhang, J. and Wu, S.M. (2008) “Immunocytochemical analysis of photoreceptors in the tiger salamander retina. Vision Research, Oct. 28, 2008.

Yu, Y., Satoh, H., Wu, S.M. and Marshak, D.W. (2008) “Histamine enhances voltage-gated potassium currents of ON bipolar cells in macaque retina. Invest. Ophthal. Vision Scien, in press.

Muhammad M. Abd-El-Barr, William W. Rubin, Mark E. Pennesi, Fung Chan, Alecia Gross, John H. Wilson, Theodore G. Wensel, Samuel M  Wu, Marie E. Burns (2007), Normal activation and altered inactivation of rod photoresponses in a human rhodopsin-EGFP knock-in mouse model, Submitted to J. of Physiology.

Ai-Jun Ahang and Samuel M. Wu,” Receptive fields of retinal bipolar cells are mediated by heterogeneous synaptic circuitry,” submitted to J. Neuroscience.