Müller Cells in the Healthy and Diseased Retina

• Main Authors: Reichenbach, Andreas (Author), Bringmann, Andreas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Ophthalmology.; Cell biology.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.; Cell Biology.

Müller cells make up just 0.005% of the cells in our central nervous system. They do not belong to the more esteemed family of neuronal cells but to the glia, a family of cells that until recently were seen as mere filling material between the neurons. Now, however, all that has changed. Sharing the...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Basic properties of Müller cells
• Müller cell gliosis
• Müller cells in the healthy retina
• Retinal Development
• Müller cells as 'light cables'
• Soft Müller cells as shock absorbers and axon paths
• 'Metabolic symbiosis'
• Neurotransmitter recycling
• Retinal K+ homeostasis
• Retinal water homeostasis
• Other interactions
• Müller cells in the diseased retina
• Retinal detachment
• Diabetic retinopathy
• Macular edema
• Proliferative retinopathies
• Ischemia-reperfusion
• Hepatic retinopathy
• Retinoschisis
• Retinitis pigmentosa and support of neuronal survival
• Future directions
• Index.