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Biomedical Applications Of Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging And Multivariate Data Analysis: Contribution To The Understanding Of Diabetes Pathogenesis, Ebrahim Aboualizadeh

Theses and Dissertations

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a microvascular complication of diabetes and a leading cause of adult vision loss. Although a great deal of progress has been made in ophthalmological examinations and clinical approaches to detect the signs of retinopathy in patients with diabetes, there still remain outstanding questions regarding the molecular and biochemical changes involved. To discover the biochemical mechanisms underlying the development and progression of changes in the retina as a result of diabetes, a more comprehensive understanding of the bio-molecular processes, in individual retinal cells subjected to hyperglycemia, is required. Animal models provide a suitable resource for temporal detection …