Theodore Leber
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Theodor Karl Gustav von Leber (February 29, 1840 - April 17, 1917) was a German ophthalmologist who first described what is now known as Leber's congenital amaurosis in 1869 and Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy in 1871.[1][2][3]
A scholarship given by the German Ophthalmological Society is named after Leber, and is called the Theodor-Leber-Stipendium zur Förderung der pharmakologischen und pharmakophysiologischen Forschung in der Augenheilkunde. Also an anatomical structure called Leber's plexus is named after him; which is a small venous plexus in the eye located between Schlemm's canal (named after German anatomist Friedrich Schlemm) and Fontana's spaces (named after Italian physicist Felice Fontana).
[edit] References
- ^ "Theodor Karl Gustav von Leber." WhoNamedIt.com. Accessed October 1, 2006.
- ^ van der Spuy J, Chapple JP, Clark BJ, Luthert PJ, Sethi CS, Cheetham ME. "The Leber congenital amaurosis gene product AIPL1 is localized exclusively in rod photoreceptors of the adult human retina." Hum Mol Genet. 2002 Apr 1;11(7):823-31. PMID 11929855.
- ^ Man PY, Turnbull DM, Chinnery PF. [1] "Leber hereditary optic neuropathy." J Med Genet. 2002 Mar;39(3):162-9. PMID 11897814.
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