This review considers the role that optic nerve head astrocytes might play ... It discusses their role in the remodelling of the structure of the lamina cribrosa and the effect that this might ...

(D) Electron microscopy of a myelinated axon in a mouse optic nerve at higher magnification. The axon is surrounded by multilamellar structure of myelin. (E) Myelinated nerve fiber reproduced in ...

Hopkins engineer Vicky Nguyen has spent 15 years studying how glaucoma progresses to figure out how to preserve patients' ...

Nocturnal animals tend to have proportionally bigger eyes than humans do. They also tend to have pupils that open more widely in low light. So, at the outset, nocturnal eyes gather more light than ...

Glaucoma, one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness worldwide today, is a critical health issue that demands ...

there is a structure called the retina. That's sort of like the wallpaper of the eye, and it helps us transmit a signal from the front of the eye to the optic nerve and to the brain. And in order ...