Macular Degeneration

"Macular Degeneration" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Degenerative changes in the RETINA usually of older adults which results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field (the MACULA LUTEA) because of damage to the retina. It occurs in dry and wet forms.

Descriptor ID	D008268
MeSH Number(s)	C11.768.585.439
Concept/Terms	Macular Degeneration Macular Degeneration Degeneration, Macular Degenerations, Macular Macular Degenerations Age-Related Maculopathies Age Related Maculopathies Macular Degeneration, Age-Related Macular Dystrophy Dystrophies, Macular Dystrophy, Macular Macular Dystrophies Maculopathies, Age-Related Maculopathies, Age Related Maculopathy, Age-Related Maculopathy, Age Related Age-Related Macular Degeneration Age Related Macular Degeneration Age-Related Macular Degenerations Degeneration, Age-Related Macular Degenerations, Age-Related Macular Macular Degenerations, Age-Related Age-Related Maculopathy Age Related Maculopathy

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Diseases [C]
Eye Diseases [C11]
Retinal Diseases [C11.768]
Retinal Degeneration [C11.768.585]
Macular Degeneration [C11.768.585.439]

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Bar chart showing 42 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 2014

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2002	1	0	1
2003	0	1	1
2009	2	1	3
2010	1	0	1
2011	2	0	2
2012	2	2	4
2013	1	2	3
2014	6	3	9
2016	3	0	3
2017	3	0	3
2018	2	0	2
2019	5	0	5
2020	1	0	1
2021	4	0	4

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Rohrer B, Parsons N, Annamalai B, Nicholson C, Obert E, Jones BW, Dick AD. Peptide-based immunotherapy against oxidized elastin ameliorates pathology in mouse model of smoke-induced ocular injury. Exp Eye Res. 2021 11; 212:108755.

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Annamalai B, Parsons N, Nicholson C, Obert E, Jones B, Rohrer B. Subretinal Rather Than Intravitreal Adeno-Associated Virus-Mediated Delivery of a Complement Alternative Pathway Inhibitor Is Effective in a Mouse Model of RPE Damage. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2021 04 01; 62(4):11.

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Fukuda S, Varshney A, Fowler BJ, Wang SB, Narendran S, Ambati K, Yasuma T, Magagnoli J, Leung H, Hirahara S, Nagasaka Y, Yasuma R, Apicella I, Pereira F, Makin RD, Magner E, Liu X, Sun J, Wang M, Baker K, Marion KM, Huang X, Baghdasaryan E, Ambati M, Ambati VL, Pandey A, Pandya L, Cummings T, Banerjee D, Huang P, Yerramothu P, Tolstonog GV, Held U, Erwin JA, Paquola ACM, Herdy JR, Ogura Y, Terasaki H, Oshika T, Darwish S, Singh RK, Mozaffari S, Bhattarai D, Kim KB, Hardin JW, Bennett CL, Hinton DR, Hanson TE, Röver C, Parang K, Kerur N, Liu J, Werner BC, Sutton SS, Sadda SR, Schumann GG, Gelfand BD, Gage FH, Ambati J. Cytoplasmic synthesis of endogenous Alu complementary DNA via reverse transcription and implications in age-related macular degeneration. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 02 09; 118(6).

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Boyer NP, Thompson DA, Koutalos Y. Relative Contributions of All-Trans and 11-Cis Retinal to Formation of Lipofuscin and A2E Accumulating in Mouse Retinal Pigment Epithelium. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2021 02 01; 62(2):1.

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Schnabolk G, Obert E, Banda NK, Rohrer B. Systemic Inflammation by Collagen-Induced Arthritis Affects the Progression of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Differently in Two Mouse Models of the Disease. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2020 12 01; 61(14):11.

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Maa AY, McCord S, Lu X, Janjua R, Howell AV, Hunt KJ, Medert CM, Giangiacomo A, Lynch MG. The Impact of OCT on Diagnostic Accuracy of the Technology-Based Eye Care Services Protocol: Part II of the Technology-Based Eye Care Services Compare Trial. Ophthalmology. 2020 04; 127(4):544-549.

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Maa AY, Medert CM, Lu X, Janjua R, Howell AV, Hunt KJ, McCord S, Giangiacomo A, Lynch MG. Diagnostic Accuracy of Technology-based Eye Care Services: The Technology-based Eye Care Services Compare Trial Part I. Ophthalmology. 2020 01; 127(1):38-44.

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Dey N, Hong S, Ach T, Koutalos Y, Curcio CA, Smith RT, Gerig G. Tensor decomposition of hyperspectral images to study autofluorescence in age-related macular degeneration. Med Image Anal. 2019 08; 56:96-109.

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Rohrer B, Frazer-Abel A, Leonard A, Ratnapriya R, Ward T, Pietraszkiewicz A, O'Quinn E, Adams K, Swaroop A, Wolf BJ. Association of age-related macular degeneration with complement activation products, smoking, and single nucleotide polymorphisms in South Carolinians of European and African descent. Mol Vis. 2019; 25:79-92.

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Schnabolk G. Systemic Inflammatory Disease and AMD Comorbidity. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2019; 1185:27-31.

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