Cumulative Loss of Inner Retinal Neurons in Healthy and Glaucoma Subjects
Kazuhiro Kurokawa, James A. Crowell, Yan Liu, Marcel Bernucci, William H. Swanson, Donald T. Miller · 2026
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Description
Kazuhiro Kurokawa and co-authors present a 2026 eye study that counts the slow loss of retinal ganglion cells in living people. These cells carry vision to the brain, and they die off with age and faster in glaucoma. Clinic tools cannot see single cells, so the loss was inferred, never watched.
Adaptive optics imaging let the team photograph the same individual cells year after year. Six healthy adults were tracked for up to three years, and two glaucoma patients were revisited after two to three years. More than twenty-three thousand cells were followed in the healthy group, and the mosaic proved stable. Healthy eyes lost about a tenth of a percent of cells per year, evenly across people and spots. The method opens direct measurement of cell death.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kazuhiro Kurokawa, James A. Crowell, Yan Liu, Marcel Bernucci, William H. Swanson, Donald T. Miller |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 61 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |