The wall of blood vessels including those in choroids may be harmed by several repeated and/or prolonged mechanical, physical, chemical, microbiological, immunologic, and genetic impacts (risk factors), which may trigger a protracted response, the so-called host defense response. As a consequence, pathological changes resulting in vascular injury (e. g. atherosclerosis, age-related macular dege...

Age related macular degeneration (AMD) is an eye related disease which leads to blindness as the disease progresses. Hence it is important to detect the disease early for timely treatment. This paper discusses about the identification of macular degeneration using multiresolution techniques and texture analysis from the fundus images of the eye. Images are analyzed at different scales and resol...

PURPOSE Telomere attrition and corresponding cellular senescence of the retinal pigment epithelium contribute to the changes of age-related macular degeneration. Activation of the enzyme telomerase can add telomeric DNA to retinal pigment epithelium chromosomal ends and has been proposed as a treatment for age-related macular degeneration. We report the use of a small molecule, oral telomerase ...