PRESSURE-DEPENDENT CHANGES IN CONFIGURATION OF ENDOTHELIAL TUBULES OF SCHLEMMS CANAL
PRESSURE-DEPENDENT CHANGES IN CONFIGURATION OF ENDOTHELIAL TUBULES OF SCHLEMMS CANAL
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DOI:
10.1016/s0002-9394(14)76301-9
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发表时间:
1974-01-01
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
JOHNSTONE, MA
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作者:
JOHNSTONE, MA
After the description of Schlemm's canal in 1830, 1 microscopists began to search for channels permitting aqueous passage through the trabecular meshwork to this canal. The search has attained added significance since Grant2 in 1963 focused attention on the trabecular meshwork as the area of abnor mal flow in open-angle glaucoma. Despite intensive study, the manner of aqueous pas sage through the trabecular endothelium to Schlemm's canal remains uncertain. In 1972, Inomata, Bill, and Smelser3 ex amined monkey eyes by electron microscopy. They demonstrated that some red blood cells and Thorotrast can pass directly through intracellular pores or channels in the tra becular endothelium. Bill and Svedbergh, 4 in 1972, found similar channels or pores in human eyes using scanning electron micro scopy. They believe the size and number of these openings are sufficient to account for the flow of aqueous humor into Schlemm's canal.Other investigators do not find direct channels through the endothelium. This is illustrated by the work of Shabo and Max well, 5 who in 1973 also examined monkey eyes by scanning electron microscopy using horseradish peroxidase and red blood cells as tracers. They found the endothelium lining the canal to be a complete nonfenestrated membrane with no channels directly through the endothelium to Schlemm's canal. In the same study Shabo and Maxwell described villus structures formed by regions