{"id":28,"date":"2025-04-28T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/?p=28"},"modified":"2025-04-29T06:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:33:18","slug":"paper-1-retinal-pigment-epithelium-cells-and-their-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/2025\/04\/28\/paper-1-retinal-pigment-epithelium-cells-and-their-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper #1: Retinal Pigment Epithelium Cells and Their Function"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-2f2f06ca-769c-4a46-bcd0-ec1d6a165c4d\" href=\"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39032\/2025\/04\/Paper-1_-RPE-Cells-Vishnoy-Vadakkancheri-1.docx\">Paper-1_-RPE-Cells-Vishnoy-Vadakkancheri-1<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39032\/2025\/04\/Paper-1_-RPE-Cells-Vishnoy-Vadakkancheri-1.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-2f2f06ca-769c-4a46-bcd0-ec1d6a165c4d\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<b>PDF Embedder requires a url attribute<\/b>\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!selectors.core.file.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39032\/2025\/04\/Paper-1_-RPE-Cells-Vishnoy-Vadakkancheri.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Paper-1_-RPE-Cells-Vishnoy-Vadakkancheri.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-eb14e931-28b9-4b3b-9ba2-f1348197bfee\" href=\"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39032\/2025\/04\/Paper-1_-RPE-Cells-Vishnoy-Vadakkancheri.pdf\">Paper-1_-RPE-Cells-Vishnoy-Vadakkancheri<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39032\/2025\/04\/Paper-1_-RPE-Cells-Vishnoy-Vadakkancheri.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-eb14e931-28b9-4b3b-9ba2-f1348197bfee\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retinal Pigment Epithelial cells have an indispensable role in human vision and are critical to the maintenance of health and functionality of the retina. Located between the light-sensitive retina and the choroid, a layer of tissue and blood vessels that supply nutrients and oxygen, RPE cells provide support to photoreceptor cells by absorbing excess light, recycling visual pigments, and maintaining the blood-retinal barrier (3). Their unique properties and functions have made them a key target in research for novel therapies for degenerative eye diseases, particularly Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in humans. Understanding the structure, role, and function of RPE cells allows us to better assess their potential in the fields of regenerative medicine and vision restoration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30872,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":4},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/student.wp.odu.edu\/vvada001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}