The relationship between retinal ganglion cell axon constituents and retinal nerve fiber layer birefringence in the primate

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5238-5246

  Pocock, Ginger M ^a,b   Aranibar, Roberto G ^a   Kemp, Nate J ^a   Specht, Charles S ^c   Markey, Mia K ^d   Rylander III, H Grady ^a  

^a Biomedical Engineering Program   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^d The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXOPLASM; BIREFRINGENCE; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BIREFRINGENCE; FEMALE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MICROTUBULES; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; ORGANELLES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 78649413493     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-3263     Document Type: Article

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