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Þór Eysteinsson - Professor
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School of Health Sciences
Þór Eysteinsson
Íslenska
Professor
Professor of neurophysiology
Location
Læknagarður
Phone
525 - 4887
Email
thoreys [at] hi.is
Unit
Department of Physiology
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9748-5854
Research portal – Þór Eysteinsson
Under construction throughout the autumn semester 2023
Courses 2023 - 2024
SÁL202G - Physiological Psychology
LÆK223G - Cell physilogy
Published works
2023
Progressive Cone-Rod Dystrophy and RPE Dysfunction in Mitfmi/+ Mice
Genes
Membrane Permeability Is Required for the Vasodilatory Effect of Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors in Porcine Retinal Arteries
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
2022
Vasodilation of Pre-contracted Porcine Retinal Arteries by Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors with Enhanced Lipophilicity
Current Eye Research
Mouse microphthalmia‐associated transcription factor (Mitf) mutations affect the structure of the retinal vasculature
Acta Ophthalmologica
2021
Molecular genetics of inherited retinal degenerations in Icelandic patients
Clinical Genetics
2020
Mitf Links Neuronal Activity and Long-Term Homeostatic Intrinsic Plasticity
eneuro
Mechanisms of Ion Transport Across the Mouse Retinal Pigment Epithelium Measured In Vitro
Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science
2019
Retinal oximetry: Metabolic imaging for diseases of the retina and brain
Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors of Different Structures Dilate Pre-Contracted Porcine Retinal Arteries
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
The microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (Mitf) gene and its role in regulating eye function
Scientific Reports
2018
Health Benefits of Walking in Nature: A Randomized Controlled Study Under Conditions of Real-Life Stress
Environment and Behavior
2017
Retinal A(2A) and A(3) adenosine receptors modulate the components of the rat electroretinogram
Visual Neuroscience
Retinal Oximetry Discovers Novel Biomarkers in Retinal and Brain Diseases.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
2016
OUTDOOR EXERCISE IS ASSOCIATED WITH BETTER CELL AGING PROFILES
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Mutations in the Mitf gene affect autophagy in mouse primary RPE cells.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Normal limits of retinal oximetry and retinal venous oxygen saturation in atrophic diseases
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Green exercise is associated with better cell ageing profiles
European Journal of Public Health
Localization of AT1 and MAS receptors on porcine retinal arteries
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Membrane permeable but not impermeable carbonic anhydrase inhibitors dilate precontracted porcine retinal arteries
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
2015
Is metabolic imaging a new tool to monitor progression in retinal degenerations and atrophy?
Acta Ophthalmologica
Image Quality Affects Measurements of Retinal Vessel Oxygen Saturation
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Stimulation or blockage of the retinal A(1) adenosine receptors modifies the components of the rat electroretinogram
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
2014
The role of Cl- channels in ion transport across the apical and basolateral sides of the mouse retinal pigment epithelium
Acta Ophthalmologica
Retinal vessel oxygen saturation and vessel diameter in retinitis pigmentosa
Acta Ophthalmologica
2013
Lysosomal alkalinization, lipid oxidation, and reduced phagosome clearance triggered by activation of the P2X7 receptor
Faseb Journal
Ion transport across the murine retinal pigment epithelium
Faseb Journal
2011
P2X(7) receptor stimulation raises lysosomal pH and triggers cytokine release from RPE cells
Faseb Journal
2010
Rapid cytokine release following stimulation of the P2X7 receptor on RPE cells
Purinergic Signalling
The A(3) adenosine receptor attenuates the calcium rise triggered by NMDA receptors in retinal ganglion cells
Neurochemistry International
A novel truncating mutation in VLGR1 gene, causing Usher syndrome type II and may also contribute to non-syndromic retinitis pigmentosa
Acta Ophthalmologica
2009
Glaucoma Filtration Surgery and Retinal Oxygen Saturation
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Oxygen Saturation in Human Retinal Vessels Is Higher in Dark Than in Light
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
GABA agonists fail to protect the retina from ischemia-reperfusion injury
Experimental Eye Research
Dorzolamide-timolol combination and retinal vessel oxygen saturation in patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension
British Journal of Ophthalmology
2007
Sveinsson chorioretinal atrophy: the mildest changes are located in the photoreceptor outer segment/retinal pigment epithelium junction
Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica
2006
Automatic retinal oximetry
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Optic nerve pH and PO2: the effects of carbonic anhydrase inhibition, and metabolic and respiratory acidosis
Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica
2005
Epidemiology of the optic nerve grey crescent in the Reykjavik Eye Study
British Journal of Ophthalmology
Carbonic anhydrase inhibition increases retinal oxygen tension and dilates retinal vessels
Graefes Archive For Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Optic nerve hypoxia results from indomethacin, but not from other anti-inflammatory drugs
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Relationships between ocular dimensions and adult stature among participants in the Reykjavik Eye Study
Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica
Automatic retinal oximetry
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Cyclodextrin formulation of dorzolamide and its distribution in the eye after topical administration
Journal of Controlled Release
Optic nerve oxygenation
Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
Visual function in helicoid peripapillary chorioretinal degeneration(HPCD)/Sveinsson's chorioretinal atrophy (SCRA) as assessed by microperimetry
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
2004
Dorzolamide induces vasodilatation in isolated pre-contracted bovine retinal arteries
Experimental Eye Research
Automatic selection of measurement points in multispectral fundus images for retinal oximetry
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Spectrophotometric retinal oximetry of retinal arterioles and venules.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Indomethacin lowers optic nerve oxygen tension and reduces the effect of carbonic anhydrase inhibition and carbon dioxide breathing
British Journal of Ophthalmology
Optic nerve oxygen tension: the effects of timolol and dorzolamide
British Journal of Ophthalmology
Electroretinographic assessment of retinal function in microphthalmia mutant mice
Experimental Eye Research
2003
Optic nerve oxygen tension: The effect of indomethacin
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Optic nerve oxygen tension: The effect of timolol and dorzolamide
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Modulation of the components of the rat dark-adapted electroretinogram by the three subtypes of GABA receptors
Visual Neuroscience
Carbonic anhydrase inhibitors elevate optic nerve oxygen tension in pigs by blocking intracellular CA II
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
2002
Optic nerve oxygen tension is not affected by a metabolic acidosis
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Central corneal thickness, radius of the corneal curvature and intraocular pressure in normal subjects using non-contact techniques: Reykjavik Eye Study
Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica
Effect of a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor on contractile activity in retinal arteries
Faseb Journal
Retinal and optic nerve oxygen tension and carbonic anhydrase inhibition in pigs
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Non-invasive retinal oxymetry in normal human subjects
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
2001
Interocular luminance differences have differential effects on the pattern reversal visual evoked potential in amblyopia.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
The effect of intravenous administration of carbonic anhydrase inhibitors and NH4Cl on pre-optic nerve pH in pigs.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Ocular implants and movements of the artificial eye.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
2000
Modification of the Xenopus electroretinogram by actions of glycine in the proximal retinal.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Optic nerve oxygen tension: effects of intraocular pressure and dorzolamide
British Journal of Ophthalmology
Interocular luminance differences and the binocular pattern onset-offset visual evoked potential.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Central corneal thickness, corneal curvature and intraocullar pressure in normal subjects: Reykjavik eye study.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Epidemiology of the optic nerve gray crescent in the Reykjavik eye study.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Modification of the Xenopus electroretinogram by actions of glycine in the proximal retina
Acta Physiologica Scandinavica
The oscillatory potentials and the b-wave of the rat ERG are modified by different GABA receptor subtypes.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
1999
Optic nerve oxygen tension in pigs and the effect of carbonic anhydrase inhibitors
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Topical dorzolamide increases optic nerve oxygen tension in the pig
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Optic nerve oxygen tension. The effect of intraocular pressure and carbonic anhydrase inhibition.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
1998
Helicoidal peripapillary chorioretinal degeneration: electrophysiology and psychophysics in 17 patients
British Journal of Ophthalmology
Helicoid Peripapillary Chorioretinal Degeneration Atrophia Areata: phenotypic variation and fine mapping of it's gene on chromosome 11p15
European Journal of Human Genetics
1997
The role of GABA in modulating the Xenopus electroretinogram
Visual Neuroscience
1996
The relative influence of binocular summation and tonic interocular suppression in spatial ind temporal vision
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
1995
LIGHT ADAPTATION OF THE CONE SYSTEM ELECTRORETINOGRAM IN DICHROMATS AND ANOMALOUS TRICHROMATS
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
1994
TOPICAL ACETAZOLAMIDE IN 2-HYDROXYPROPYL-BETA-CYCLODEXTRIN (HP-BETA-CD) EYE DROPS LOWERS INTRAOCULAR-PRESSURE IN HUMANS
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
HELICOIDAL PERIPAPILLARY CHORIORETINAL DEGENERATION IN ICELAND - ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL FINDINGS
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
DIFFERENTIAL INFLUENCE OF SEROTONIN IN INNER VERSUS OUTER VERTEBRATE RETINA
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
1993
TONIC INTEROCULAR SUPPRESSION, BINOCULAR SUMMATION, AND THE VISUAL-EVOKED POTENTIAL
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
GABAERGIC AND NON-GABAERGIC FORMS OF SUPPRESSIVE RODCONE INTERACTION (SRCI)
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
ALPHA-AMINO PIMELIC ACID - ANOTHER NEW TOOL FOR RETINAL RESEARCH
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
1991
TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL PROPERTIES OF SUPPRESSIVE ROD-CONE INTERACTION
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
TEMPORAL VARIATIONS IN THE IONIC TRANSPORT ACROSS RABBIT RETINAL-PIGMENT EPITHELIUM
Current Eye Research
TONIC INTEROCULAR SUPPRESSION AND BINOCULAR SUMMATION IN HUMAN VISION
Journal of Physiology-London
TONIC INTEROCULAR SUPPRESSION FROM A DARK-ADAPTED EYE UPON CONTRALATERAL SPATIAL VISION - A UNIQUE TYPE OF ROD-CONE INTERACTION
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science
1989
SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL LIMITATIONS OF SUPPRESSIVE ROD-CONE INTERACTION IN XENOPUS H-CELLS
Journal of Physiology-London
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PHARMACOLOGIC ANALYSIS OF SUPPRESSIVE ROD-CONE IN NECTURUS RETINA
Journal of Neurophysiology
1988
THE CELLULAR BASIS FOR SUPPRESSIVE ROD CONE INTERACTION
Visual Neuroscience
1987
SUPPRESSIVE ROD-CONE INTERACTION IN DISTAL VERTEBRATE RETINA - INTRACELLULAR RECORDS FROM XENOPUS AND NECTURUS
Journal of Neurophysiology
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