A University of Minnesota Medical School-led research team has discovered that a cancer signaling pathway has previously ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising connection between a cancer-related signaling pathway and the blood-brain and blood-retina barriers.

“The eye and the brain [have] what we call a blood-brain barrier or a blood-ocular barrier,” Dr. Takemoto said. “The blood supply in the rest of the body doesn’t mix with the blood supply ...

The human eye has two barriers, the blood-aqueous barrier in the front of the inner eye and the blood-retinal barrier at the back of the eyes. [Survey of Ophthalmology 1979] ...

Researchers have discovered the virus that causes COVID-19 can breach the protective blood-retinal-barrier with potential long-term consequences in the eye.

The blood-retinal barrier performs the same function for the eye as the blood-brain barrier does for the brain. In Norrie disease, the development of blood vessels of the retina -- the layer of ...

JOENSUU, Finland, Dec. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have developed two new cell models that can open up new avenues for ocular drug discovery. The new ...

Drug delivery to the eye presents additional challenges because of the blood-ocular barrier -- the physical barrier between blood vessels and tissues of the eye -- which tightly controls what ...

Eye - The effects of prostaglandin analogues on the blood aqueous barrier and corneal thickness of phakic patients with primary open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension Skip to main content ...