Book chapter
Blood-Optic Nerve Barrier
Ischemic Optic Neuropathies, pp.79-84
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2011
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11852-4_4
Abstract
The blood-optic nerve barrier is an important subject in any consideration of optic nerve and optic nerve head (ONH) vascular disorders. The capillaries in the ONH and the rest of the optic nerve, as in the retina [1–5] and in the central nervous system [6–10] have tight cell junctions between adjacent endothelial cells, without fenestration [11–13]. These tight junctions are responsible for the blood-optic nerve barrier, which has been shown by intravenous injection of tracer substances, such as horseradish peroxidase [14–16] and diaminoacridines [17].
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Blood-Optic Nerve Barrier
- Creators
- Sohan Hayreh - University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics College of Medicine
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Ischemic Optic Neuropathies, pp.79-84
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-11852-4_4
- Publisher
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Berlin, Heidelberg
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2011
- Academic Unit
- Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9983980029802771
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