Eye Disease Modeling (IMAGE)

Indiana University

Eye Disease Modeling

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These images from the virtual tissue model show, from left to right, growing areas of lower oxygen (blue regions, middle row) and the corresponding progression of protein VEGF (red regions, bottom row), concomitant with 'domino-like' progressive loss of small blood vessels in the retina over time (region without arrows, top row).

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Indiana University

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