Effects of retinal ganglion cell loss on magno-, parvo-, koniocellular pathways in the lateral geniculate nucleus and visual cortex in glaucoma

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 465-481

  Yücel, Yeni H ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Weinreb, Robert N ^b   Kaufman, Paul L ^c   Gupta, Neeru ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Degeneration; Glaucoma; Koniocellular; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Magnocellular; Parvocellular; Primate; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; CELL LOSS; CELL SIZE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE LESION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 17944390776     PISSN: 13509462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-9462(03)00026-0     Document Type: Review

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