title: A selected review of current retinal research and study.
abstract: This paper presents a digest of 50 retinal research projects reported in one British and two American journals from July 1976 through June 1977. The articles reviewed report recent developments pertaining to effects of excessive light on retinal tissue in newborn rats, pathogenesis of cotton-wool spots, control of the blood-retinal barrier in diabetes, infections, macular diseases, variations in retinal pigment epithelium, and retinal detachment.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D006660:Histoplasmosis / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D013966:Thyroiditis / Q000209:etiology; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000150:complications; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000150:complications