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Retinal and Choroidal Vascular Changes and Systemic Diseases in Rats

Corrosion Cast and Scanning Electron Microscopy

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Authors:
  1. Tsugio Amemiya

    1. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

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  • Three-dimensional view of retinal and choroidal vasculatures in model rats of systemic diseases
  • The description on the retinal and choroidal vascular changes specific for a single systemic disease is most important, interesting, new and beneficial for readers
  • Research techniques and pictures shown in this book must be available for evaluation of drug effects

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Table of contents (2 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages II-VIII
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  2. The Retinal Vasculature

    • Tsugio Amemiya
    Pages 1-32

  3. The Choroidal Vasculature

    • Tsugio Amemiya
    Pages 33-76

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 77-80
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Retinal and choroidal vasculatures are easily affected by various systemic diseases, and changes in the retina can easily be observed with various procedures such as direct and indirect ophthalmoscopy, scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, fluorescein fundus angiography, and indocyanin green fundus angiography. Vascular changes are the major, most prominent, and most important fundus changes. The above-mentioned procedures can reveal vascular changes clearly, but mainly reveal changes in the superficial layer of the retina. In addition, these procedures cannot show the three-dimensional architecture of the retina. Usually we can barely obtain the view of that three­ dimensional architecture. At the same time, pathological findings are well described, but most of them are based on histological and cytological methods. Thus, three-dimensional description of pathology is rare. Vascular corrosion cast scanning electron microscopy can provide a very useful three-dimensional view of the microvasculature and can demonstrate the fine structural architecture of the capillary network. However, the application of this method to the retinal and choroidal vasculature is very difficult, especially in small eyes. We succeeded in making good corrosion casts of retinal and choroidal vessels in the rat. Using this method during the past 10 years we have examined the retinal and choroidal vascular architecture of rats with various systemic diseases such as aging, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and arteriosclerosis.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

    Tsugio Amemiya

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Retinal and Choroidal Vascular Changes and Systemic Diseases in Rats

  • Book Subtitle: Corrosion Cast and Scanning Electron Microscopy

  • Authors: Tsugio Amemiya

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68394-0

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Tokyo 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-00612-1Published: 23 April 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-68396-4Published: 12 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-68394-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 80

  • Topics: Ophthalmology

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