Mechanisms of the glaucomas : disease processes and therapeutic modalities /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Barnstable, Colin J., Shields, M. Bruce, Tombran-Tink, Joyce
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2008.
Series:Ophthalmology research.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.