Investigating retinal therapies using ex vivo retinal explants

Virpi Alarautalahti; Symantas Ragauskas; Andrea Holme; Hannele Uusitalo-Järvinen; Hannu Uusitalo; Jari Hyttinen; Giedrius Kalesnykas; Soile Nymark

doi:10.3389/conf.fnins.2016.93.00036

Investigating retinal therapies using ex vivo retinal explants

Virpi Alarautalahti^*, Symantas Ragauskas, Andrea Holme, Hannele Uusitalo-Järvinen, Hannu Uusitalo, Jari Hyttinen, Giedrius Kalesnykas, Soile Nymark

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Abstract

Retinal degenerative diseases cause an enormous economic burden to the society and decrease the life quality and independence of affected patients. Currently, there are no therapies that would cure these diseases and restore vision. Thus, new treatments are urgently needed. In vitro retina model systems would facilitate the therapy development, and enable the investigation of the effects, benefits and risks of the medical treatments to the retinal tissue. In this study, we tested an organotypic retinal explant culture system and its potential as a tool for the investigations of retinal therapies, focusing on the effects of drugs to the functioning and morphology of the retina.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/conf.fnins.2016.93.00036
Publication status	Published - 24 Jun 2016
Event	MEA Meeting 2016, 10th International Meeting on Substrate-Integrated Electrode Arrays - Reutlingen, Germany Duration: 28 Jun 2016 → 1 Jul 2016

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Conference	MEA Meeting 2016, 10th International Meeting on Substrate-Integrated Electrode Arrays
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Reutlingen
Period	28/06/16 → 1/07/16

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This work was supported by the Academy of Finland (grants 260375, 287287 and 294054), by iBioMEP graduate school and by TEKES.

Keywords

Retina
Culture system
Retinal explants
perforated MEA

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