Expansions of the neurovascular scleral canal and contained optic nerve occur early in the hypertonic saline rat experimental glaucoma model

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 145, Issue , 2016, Pages 173-186

  Pazos, Marta ^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; Proprietary interest category: N; Rat; Scleral canal

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; EXPERIMENTAL GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMATOUS OPTIC NEUROPATHY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NEUROVASCULAR SCLERAL CANAL; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE LESION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; SCLERA; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GLAUCOMA; NEURAL TUBE; OPTIC DISK; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRUCH MEMBRANE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLAUCOMA; MALE; NEURAL TUBE; OPTIC DISK; RATS; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; SCLERA;

EID: 84951856004     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2015.10.014     Document Type: Article

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