Rat optic nerve head anatomy within 3D histomorphometric reconstructions of normal control eyes

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 139, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-12

  Pazos, Marta ^a,d   Yang, Hongli ^a   Gardiner, Stuart K ^b   Cepurna, William O ^c   Johnson, Elaine C ^c   Morrison, John C ^c   Burgoyne, Claude F ^a  

^a DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Glaucoma; Neural canal; Optic nerve; Optic nerve head; Rat; Scleral canal

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CHOROID; CILIARY ARTERY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA VEIN; SCLERA; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANIMAL; BROWN NORWAY RAT; OPTIC DISK; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OPTIC DISK; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84938059525     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2015.05.011     Document Type: Article

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