A biomechanical paradigm for axonal insult within the optic nerve head in aging and glaucoma

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 120-132

  Burgoyne, Claude F ^a  

^a DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Glaucoma; Lamina cribrosa; Optic nerve head; Peripapillary scleral; Retinal ganglion cell axon

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

AGING; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BIOMECHANICS; CAPILLARY FLOW; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GLAUCOMA; GLIA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MICROTUBULE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTIC NERVE HEAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

AGING; ASTROCYTES; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 80052798328     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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