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disease processes and therapeutic modalities
xix, 762 pages : illustrations + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
1 Age and racial variation in the prevalence of open-angle glaucoma in the USA -- 2 Epidemiology of and risk factors for primary open-angle glaucoma -- 3 The Reykjavik Eye Study on prevalence of glaucoma in Iceland and identified risk factors -- 4 Defined glaucoma in Chinese population -- 5 The Wroclaw Epidemiological Study screening possibilities of glaucoma detection -- 6 Pretrabecular mechanisms of intraocular pressure elevation -- 7 Glaucomatous changes in the trabecular meshwork -- 8 Trabecular mechanisms of intraocular pressure elevation Pseudoexfoliation syndrome -- 9 Post-trabecular glaucomas with elevated episcleral venous pressure -- 10 Angle-closure glaucoma: anterior (pulling) mechanisms -- 11 Angle-closure glaucomas: posterior (pushing) mechanisms with pupillary block -- 12 Angle-closure glaucomas: posterior (pushing) mechanisms without pupillary block -- 13 Genetics and glaucoma susceptibility -- 14 Myocilin mutations and their role in open-angle glaucoma -- 15 The functional role of myocilin in glaucoma -- 16 Roles of CYP1B1, optineurin, and WDR36 gene mutations in glaucoma -- 17 Genetic association in the open-angle glaucomas -- 18 ApoE polymorphisms and severity of open-angle glaucoma.
19 Changes in aqueous humor dynamics with age and glaucoma -- 20 Mechanosensitive genes in the trabecular meshwork at homeostasis: elevated intraocular pressure and stretch -- 21 Reactive astrocytes in the glaucomatous optic nerve head protective and destructive mechanisms -- 22 Optic neuropathy and ganglion cell degeneration in glaucoma -- 23 Proteomics in defining pathogenic processes involved in glaucomatous neurodegeneration in glaucoma: mechanisms and therapeutic strategies -- 24 Proteomics advances toward understanding mechanisms of glaucoma pathology -- 25 Molecular and cellular responses in the eye to glaucoma: ocular gene expression in experimental glaucoma -- 26 Ocular biomechanics in glaucoma -- 27 Intraocular pressure, perfusion pressure, and optic nerve energy metabolism -- 28 Optic nerve: physiology and mechanisms of glaucomatous atrophy -- 29 Psychophysiology of glaucoma -- 30 The primate model of experimental glaucoma -- 31 Involvement of inflammation in a mouse model of inherited pigmentary glaucoma -- 32 Use of purified retinal ganglion cells for an in vitro model to study glaucoma -- 33 pharmacological therapies for managing glaucoma -- 34 Redox-based therapies for neuroprotection -- 35 Neuroprotective signaling pathways in glaucoma -- 36 Role of selective laser trabeculoplasty in the management of glaucoma -- 37 Mechanisms and mechanics of incisional surgery for glaucoma -- 38 Aqueous shunts -- 39 New approaches to the surgical management of the glaucomas.
edited by Joyce Tombran-Tink, Colin J. Barnstable, M. Bruce Shields.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.