The discovery in the human ocular ciliary body of glaucoma-associated genes (ie, MYOC,
CYP1B1), neuroendocrine processing enzymes, neuroendocrine peptides, steroid …

The generation of expression and subtractive libraries from the ocular ciliary body and
cultured ciliary epithelial cells has been instrumental in the cloning, identification and …

There has been a suspicion on the part of many clinicians and research scientists that
intraocular pressure can be regulated by neural and/or humoral influences upon the rate of …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents an overview of the current consensus concerning
aqueous humor formation and discusses the functional components underlying transport by …

Primary open-angle glaucoma is a multifactorial disease that affects the retinal ganglion
cells, but currently its therapy is to lower the eye pressure. This indicates a definite …

The aqueous humor is formed by the bilayered ciliary epithelium. The pigmented ciliary
epithelium (PE) faces the stroma and the nonpigmented ciliary epithelium (NPE) contacts …

Purpose The ciliary body (CB) of the human eye consists of the non-pigmented (NPE) and
pigmented (PE) neuro-epithelia. We investigated the gene expression of NPE and PE, to …

The ciliary epithelium of the eye is thought to be responsible for the active production of
aqueous humor. The role of hormones and neuropeptides in mediating this process is …

Advances over the past decade in understanding the pathophysiologic features of outflow
abnormalities in glaucoma include structural changes in the trabecular meshwork (TM), the …

Glucocorticoid effects on the human trabecular meshwork can be used as a model system in
which to study glaucomatous damage to the trabecular meshwork. One of the most important …