Maria Natalia Vergara

This study uses microglia-containing Alzheimer's disease brain organoids to monitor Aβ aggregation and cellular viability, identifying age-dependent disease-associated phenotypes.

The paper identifies a developmental wave of programmed ganglion cell death in human retinal organoids, showing it occurs via the extrinsic apoptotic pathway.

The paper evaluates the efficacy of PEDF-derived peptides delivered via eye drops in preserving photoreceptor viability, morphology, and function in retinal degeneration models.

This study investigates how traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology in the retinas of a transgenic rat model, finding that TBI exacerbates AD-related histopathology.