Indiana University scientists with expertise in optometry and artificial intelligence are among the first three groups of researchers to receive support from a new program from the National Institutes of Health supporting the emerging field of “oculomics,” which uses the eye as a lens on diseases that affect the whole body.
Determining the effect of estriol treatment on cerebral cortex in the preclinical model of MS
Treating a mouse model of multiple sclerosis with the pregnancy hormone estriol reversed the breakdown of myelin in the brain’s cortex, a key region affected