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The Vitreous Proteome

The vitreous humor, comprising four-fifths of the volume of the eyeball, is a transparent, colorless, gelatinous mass that holds the eye tautly in place. It also sustains the morphology and function of adjacent tissues through a complex but defined collection of proteins.

A detailed list of the proteins in the vitreous is a first step to understanding the structure’s biological processes. Recently, a team led by Jürgen Kopitz of the Institute of Pathology, University of Heidelberg applied in-depth proteomic screening technologies to the human vitreous (1).

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  1. S. Aretz et al., “In-depth mass spectrometric mapping of the human vitreous proteome,” Proteome Sci, 11, 22 (2013).

 

 

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About the Author
Mark Hillen

I spent seven years as a medical writer, writing primary and review manuscripts, congress presentations and marketing materials for numerous – and mostly German – pharmaceutical companies. Prior to my adventures in medical communications, I was a Wellcome Trust PhD student at the University of Edinburgh.

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