Publications by MERI members

Sauter, M., J. Gauger, and C. Brandt. Oligonucleotides Designed to Inhibit TLR9 Block Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Infection at Multiple steps. Antiviral Res, 2014, p. PubMed Text.

Toops, K., L. Tan, and A. Lakkaraju. A Detailed Three-Step Protocol for Live Imaging of Intracellular Traffic in Polarized Primary Porcine RPE monolayers. Exp Eye Res, 2014, p. PubMed Text.

Lu, Y., H. Tu, Y. Xu, and H. Jiang. Tunable Dielectric Liquid Lens on Flexible substrate. Appl Phys Lett, 2013, p. PubMed Text.

Huang, Y., R. Danis, J. Pak, S. Luo, J. White, X. Zhang, A. Narkar, and A. Domalpally. Development of a Semi-Automatic Segmentation Method for Retinal OCT Images Tested in Patients With Diabetic Macular edema. PLoS One, 2013, p. PubMed Text.

Sorenson, C., S. Wang, R. Gendron, H. Paradis, and N. Sheibani. Thrombospondin-1 Deficiency Exacerbates the Pathogenesis of Diabetic Retinopathy. J Diabetes Metab, 2013, p. PubMed Text.

Colley, N., and J. Dowling. Spotlight on the Evolution of vision. Vis Neurosci, 2013, p. PubMed Text.

Rajala, A., Y. Yan, M. Dent, and L. Populin. The Inferior Colliculus Encodes the Franssen Auditory Spatial illusion. Eur J Neurosci, 2013, p. PubMed Text.

Gamm, D., and L. Wright. From Embryonic Stem Cells to Mature photoreceptors. Nat Biotechnol, 2013, p. PubMed Text.

Pattnaik, B., S. Tokarz, M. Asuma, T. Schroeder, A. Sharma, J. Mitchell, A. Edwards, and D. Pillers. Snowflake Vitreoretinal Degeneration (SVD) Mutation R162W Provides New Insights into Kir7.1 Ion Channel Structure and function. PLoS One, 2013, p. PubMed Text.

Toops, K., and A. Lakkaraju. Let’s Play a Game of Chutes and Ladders: Lysosome Fusion With the Epithelial Plasma membrane. Commun Integr Biol, 2013, p. e24474, PubMed Text.

Gamm, D., M. Phillips, and R. Singh. Modeling Retinal Degenerative Diseases With Human IPS-Derived Cells: Current Status and Future implications. Expert Rev Ophthalmol, 2013, p. PubMed Text.

Gallego-Lopez, G., E. Guzman, L. Knoll, and M. Skala. Metabolic Changes to Host Cells With Toxoplasma Gondii infection. bioRxiv, p. Epub PubMed Text.

Li, H., W. Liu, C. Sorenson, N. Sheibani, D. Albert, T. Senanayake, S. Vinogradov, J. Henkin, and H. Zhang. Sustaining Intravitreal Residence With L-Arginine Peptide-Conjugated nanocarriers. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, pp. 5142-5150 PubMed Text.

A Combined RNA-Seq and Whole Genome Sequencing Approach for Identification of Non-Coding Pathogenic Variants in Single families. Hum Mol Genet.

Spatial Arrangement Drastically Changes the Neural Representation of Multiple Visual Stimuli That Compete in More Than One Feature Domain. J Neurosci.

Using Eye-Tracking to Understand Relations Between Visual Attention and Language in children’s Spatial skills. Cogn Psychol.

Effects of Toll-Like Receptor 4 Inhibition on Transforming Growth Factor-?2 Signaling in the Human Trabecular Meshwork. J Ocul Pharmacol Ther.

Loss of Chondroitin Sulfate Modification Causes Inflammation and Neurodegeneration in Skt Mice. Genetics.

The Programmed Death Pathway in Ocular Adnexal Sebaceous Carcinoma. Ophthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg.

Jamali, N., Y. Song, C. Sorenson, and N. Sheibani. 1,25(OH)(2)D(3) Regulates the Proangiogenic Activity of Pericyte through VDR-Mediated Modulation of VEGF Production and Signaling of VEGF and PDGF receptors. FASEB Bioadv, p. PubMed Text.

Van Grinsven, K., A. Ashtiani, and H. Jiang. Flexible Electrowetting-on-Dielectric Microlens Array Sheet. Micromachines (Basel), p. PubMed Text.

Zaitoun, I., C. Wintheiser, N. Jamali, S. Wang, A. Suscha, S. Darjatmoko, K. Schleck, B. Hanna, V. Lindner, N. Sheibani, and C. Sorenson. Bcl-2 Expression in Pericytes and Astrocytes Impacts Vascular Development and Homeostasis. Sci Rep, p. PubMed Text.

Gamm, D., E. Clark, E. Capowski, and R. Singh. The Role of FGF9 in the Production of Neural Retina and RPE in a Pluripotent Stem Cell Model of Early Human Retinal Development. Am J Ophthalmol, p. PubMed Text.

Kaufman, P., E. Drecoll, and M. Croft. Presbyopia and Glaucoma: Two Diseases, One Pathophysiology? The 2017 Friedenwald Lecture. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, p. PubMed Text.

Grinblat, Y., and R. Lipinski. A Forebrain Undivided: Unleashing Model Organisms to Solve the Mysteries of holoprosencephaly. Dev Dyn, p. PubMed Text.