The relationships between the destructive effects of Q-switched Nd/YAG laser pulses and a number of experimental parameters were studied for various target materials including in particular excised, fixed samples of human trabecular meshwork. The laser parameters altered were the pulse energy, the convergence angle of the focused beam, and the position of the focus of the beam relative to the t...

An investigation was undertaken to analyze the effects of delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity from calf ocular tissues. Ciliary processes, retina, trabecular meshwork, choroid, and iris all demonstrated significant MAO activity in decreasing order of magnitude. THC in concentrations from 10(-8)M to 10(-12)M stimulated MAO activity in extracts from all five tis...

Glaucoma is a major cause of irreversible blindness. Nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 (Nrf2) regulates the expression of numerous antioxidants within cells and is therefore a focus of current ophthalmic research. To determine the roles of Nrf2 in mediating the glaucoma trabecular meshwork (GTM), the present study evaluated the levels of Nrf2 expression in GTM and human trabecular mes...

The current study characterizes selected properties of lysosomal enzymes associated with cynomolgus monkey trabecular meshwork (MTM) cells. These proteins may participate in the turnover of macromolecules involved in regulating the aqueous outflow. Intracellular levels of lysosomal enzymes in MTM cells were similar to those found in cultured human fibroblasts. The presence of ammonium chloride ...