Pierre Lachapelle, PhD
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Neurosciences
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Refining investigative approaches to study, in normal subjects and patients of all ages, the functional integrity of the human visual system from the retina to the visual cortex. Characterizing new animal models of human retinal diseases in order to explore new therapeutic strategies.Retinopathy of prematurity, ophthalmology, electroretinography, electrophysiology, development, retinopathy
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Retinopathy of prematurity, ophthalmology, electroretinography, electrophysiology, development, retinopathy
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Montreal Children's Hospital Publications:
Dorfman AL, Polosa A, Joly S, Chemtob S, Lachapelle P. Functional and structural changes resulting from strain differences in the rat model of oxygen-induced retinopathy. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 50(5):2436-50, 2009
Beaulieu C, Rufiange M, Dumont M, Lachapelle P. Modulation of ERG retinal sensitivity parameters with light environment and photoperiod. Doc Ophthalmol 118(2):89-99, 2009
Joly S, Pernet V, Chemtob S, Di Polo A, Lachapelle P. Neuroprotection in the juvenile rat model of light-induced retinopathy: evidence suggesting a role for FGF-2 and CNTF. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 48(5):2311-20, 2007
