Open AccessCompromised Optic Nerve Blood Flow and Autoregulation Secondary to Neural Degeneration
Author(s) -
Grant Cull,
Reinhard Told,
Claude F. Burgoyne,
Simon Thompson,
Brad Fortune,
Lin Wang
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
investigative ophthalmology and visual science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.935
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1552-5783
pISSN - 0146-0404
DOI - 10.1167/iovs.15-17879
Subject(s) - optic nerve , ophthalmology , autoregulation , medicine , nerve fiber layer , retinal , anatomy , blood pressure
To test the hypothesis that optic nerve head (ONH) blood flow (BF) and autoregulation compromise are consequences of optic nerve degeneration induced by surgical optic nerve transection (ONT).