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Annual Review of Vision Science

Volume 2, 2016

Understanding Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy: The Synergy Between Clinical Observation and Investigation

Abstract

Glaucoma is a complex disorder of aging defined by the death of retinal ganglion cells and remodeling of connective tissues at the optic nerve head. Intraocular pressure-induced axonal injury at the optic nerve head leads to apoptosis. Loss of retinal ganglion cells follows a slowly progressive sequence. Clinical features of the disease have suggested and corroborated pathological events. The death of retinal ganglion cells causes secondary loss of neurons in the brain, but only as a by-product of injury to the retinal ganglion cells. Although therapy to lower intraocular pressure is moderately effective, new treatments are being developed to alter the remodeling of ocular connective tissue, to interrupt the injury signal from axon to soma, and to upregulate a variety of survival mechanisms.

Keyword(s): glaucoma, optic nerve, pathogenesis, retinal ganglion cell, treatment
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Understanding Glaucomatous Optic Neuropathy: The Synergy Between Clinical Observation and Investigation
Annual Review of Vision Science 2, 235 (2016); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-vision-111815-114417
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