Editor’s Perspectives – January 2019

From the Editors: Perspectives on turnaround time.

Retina Surgery Global Perspectives Section Editors

C urrently there is no established standard of care for central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). The conditions that are targeted by current treatments are neovascularization and macular edema. Panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) is accepted as an established treatment for neovascularization, but a consensus has not yet been reached on the indications for and timing of the procedure. Recent large-s...

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Endophilin-B1, also known as Bax-interacting factor 1 (Bif-1, and encoded by SH3GLB1), is a multifunctional protein involved in apoptosis, autophagy and mitochondrial function. We recently described a unique neuroprotective role for neuron-specific alternatively spliced isoforms of endophilin-B1. To examine whether endophilin-B1-mediated neuroprotection could be a novel therapeutic target for A...

Editors’ introduction Functional and corpus perspectives in contrastive discourse analysis

This special issue of Linguistics and the Human Sciences offers a collection of original contributions to the study of languages in contrast from discourse, corpus, and functional perspectives. The papers were presented at the Sixth International Conference on Contrastive Linguistics, held in Berlin 29 September–3 October 2010, in the context of two panels: ‘Discourse analysis and contrastive l...