Ciliary Body

Known as: EYE, CILIARY BODY, body ciliary, Ciliare, Corpus 
A ring of tissue extending from the scleral spur to the ora serrata of the RETINA. It consists of the uveal portion and the epithelial portion. The… (More)
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Blood supply aspectsCDISC SDTM Anatomical Location TerminologyCDISC SEND Biospecimens TerminologyCiliary Body Disorder
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Ciliary epitheliumCiliary muscle structureCorona ciliarisStructure of pars plana

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EyeUveal Diseases

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Self-organizing optic-cup morphogenesis in three-dimensional culture
s / Neuroscience Research 71S (2011) e108–e415 e127 P2-e02 Generation of neural crest progenitor cells from human induced… (More)
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2008
2008
Ciliary body thickness and refractive error in children.
PURPOSE To determine whether ciliary body thickness (CBT) is related to refractive error in school-age children. METHODS Fifty… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Identification of a novel adult-onset primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) gene on 5q22.1.
Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness in virtually every country. Development of an accurate diagnostic test for… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Very long-term prognosis of patients with malignant uveal melanoma.
PURPOSE To investigate the very long-term prognosis of patients with uveal melanoma and the clinical characteristics influencing… (More)
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2003
2003
Growth factors induce neurogenesis in the ciliary body.
The ciliary body of the eye is a nonneural tissue that is derived from the anterior rim of the optic cup, an extension of the… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
BMP signaling is required for development of the ciliary body.
The ciliary body in the eye secretes aqueous humor and glycoproteins of the vitreous body and maintains the intraocular pressure… (More)
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Review
1999
Review
1999
Tissue-specific functions of individual glutathione peroxidases.
The family of glutathione peroxidases comprises four distinct mammalian selenoproteins. The classical enzyme (cGPx) is… (More)
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
A release mechanism for stored ATP in ocular ciliary epithelial cells.
Purines can modify ciliary epithelial secretion of aqueous humor into the eye. The source of the purinergic agonists acting in… (More)
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Review
1993
Review
1993
Aquaporin CHIP: the archetypal molecular water channel.
Despite longstanding interest by nephrologists and physiologists, the molecular identities of membrane water channels remained… (More)
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Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Loss of acute pilocarpine effect on outflow facility following surgical disinsertion and retrodisplacement of the ciliary muscle from the scleral spur in the cynomolgus monkey.
An ab-interno goniotomy-like operation for disinserting the ciliary muscle from the scleral spur in cynomolgus monkeys is… (More)
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