Emily Nettesheim
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Emily Nettesheim
@emilyrnett.bsky.social
Graduate Student in the Wert Laboratory - UT Southwestern Department of Ophthalmology. All views/opinions are my own
Check out this exciting new work highlighting the impact of female sex hormones on retinal degeneration in a model of Retinitis Pigmentosa led by fellow @wertlaboratory.bsky.social graduate student Ashley Rowe!
And it’s published! Congratulations to Ashley on her first author paper! I’m excited to share this with everyone here.

Female sex hormones exacerbate retinal neurodegeneration | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Female sex hormones exacerbate retinal neurodegeneration
Circulating female sex hormones worsen vision loss in a model for a common inherited retinal degenerative disease.
www.science.org
April 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM