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Topography of neuron loss in the retinal ganglion cell layer in human glaucoma

Lei, Yuan, Garrahan, Nigel John, Hermann, Boris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8658-485X, Fautsch, M. P., Johnson, D. H., Hernandez, M. Rosario, Boulton, Michael Edwin and Morgan, James Edwards ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8920-1065 2009. Topography of neuron loss in the retinal ganglion cell layer in human glaucoma. British Journal of Ophthalmology 93 (12) , pp. 1676-1679. 10.1136/bjo.2009.159210

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Abstract

Abstract Aim: To determine if retinal ganglion cell (RGC) loss influences the loss of surrounding RGCs to generate clustered patterns of cell death in human glaucoma. It is hypothesised that retinal ganglion cell loss accelerates the loss of surrounding cells to generate, at a local, cellular scale, clustered patterns of retinal of RGC death. The absence of these interactions would result in a diffuse pattern RGC loss. Method: Six glaucomatous retinas (67–83 years old) and six age-matched control retinas (61–89 years old) were prepared as wholemounts and stained by 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) solution (3 μg/ml in PBS). An area corresponding to central 14° of the visual field was imaged. The nearest-neighbour distribution was determined for cells in both normal and glaucomatous RGCL. Results: Clustered RGC loss in human glaucoma was observed on a background of diffuse loss. The mean nearest-neighbour distance (NND) of the glaucomatous retinas was significantly higher than with controls (p<0.001). The distribution of NND in glaucomatous retinas was skewed to the higher values with a higher positive kurtosis relative to controls. The quantitative analysis of the pattern of cell loss is supported by the visual inspection of the patterns of cell loss. Discussion: The nearest-neighbour analysis is consistent with the presence of two patterns of cell loss in the RGCL in glaucoma. While the diffuse of cell loss can account for an overall reduction in the RGC population, an additional non-random pattern is consistent with the hypothesis that RGC loss has a local influence on the viability of surrounding cells.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Optometry and Vision Sciences
Medicine
Systems Immunity Research Institute (SIURI)
Subjects: R Medicine > RB Pathology
R Medicine > RE Ophthalmology
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
ISSN: 0007-1161
Last Modified: 19 Oct 2022 09:00
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/19714

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