Andreas Bringmann, Peter Wiedemann

The Fovea

Structure, Function, Development, and Tractional Disorders

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Fovea: Structure, Function, Development, and Disease summarizes the current biological knowledge regarding the two types of the vertebrate fovea (and its main structural elements, the Müller cells). This information is then used to explain different aspects of human vision, foveal development, and macular disorders. Sections give an overview of the retinal structure and the different types of retinal glia, survey the structure and function of the primate and non-mammalian fovea types, discuss foveal development-with a focus on the human fovea, cover the roles of Müller cells and astrocytes in the pathogenesis and regeneration of various human macular disorders are described. Using a translational approach, this reference is a valuable text for scientists, clinicians and physicians interested in the fovea. Readers will gain a new understanding of the cellular basics of the fovea, which is the most important part of the eye.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm
• Gewicht: 810g
• ISBN-13: 9780323904674
• ISBN-10: 032390467X
• Artikelnr.: 61462720

Autorenporträt

Since 1996, the research focus of Dr. Andreas Bringmann has been the Müller cell and the retina. He studied Biology (Animal Physiology) and worked in the basic sciences after the study. He was from 1990 to 2002 scientific assistant at the Department of Neurophysiology, Paul Flechsig Institute of Brain Research, Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig (Head of the Department: Andreas Reichenbach, MD). Since 2002, he is the Head of the Research Laboratory of the Department of Ophthalmology and Eye Clinic, Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. He has published 181 peer-reviewed original papers, 30 review articles, 10 book chapters, and 2 books.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Optical properties of the retina 2. Basic structure of the
retina 3. Retinal glia 4. Nonmammalian fovea 5. Primate Fovea 6. Comparison
of the nonmammalian and primate fovea 7. Development of the fovea 8.
Tractional disorders of the human fovea