Nerve fiber layer thinning lags retinal ganglion cell density following crush axonopathy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6505-6513

  Munguba, Gustavo C ^a   Galeb, Sanja ^a   Liu, Yuan ^a   Landy, David C ^a,b   Lam, Daisy ^a   Camp, Andrew ^a   Samad, Sinthia ^a   Tapia, Mary L ^a   Lee, Richard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Glaucoma; Neurodegeneration; Optical coherence tomography; Retinal ganglion cells; Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVE CRUSH; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE CRUSH; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84908088756     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-14525     Document Type: Article

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