Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA.
Eye (Lond). 2010 Mar;24(3):401-7. doi: 10.1038/eye.2009.324. Epub 2010 Jan 15.
This review focuses on aspects of primate retinal vasculature that are not found in lower mammals, with emphasis on development of vascular patterning, the foveal avascular zone (FAZ), and pathogenesis of retinopathy of prematurity. Uniquely primate features arise from primate-specific neurovascular and neuroglial relationships. Although experimentation in primate vascular development is relatively impractical, it affords insights into normal and pathological retinal angiogenesis that is difficult to approach in other ways.
这篇综述专注于灵长类动物视网膜血管系统中与低等哺乳动物不同的方面，重点介绍血管模式形成、中央无血管区（FAZ）以及早产儿视网膜病变的发病机制。灵长类动物特有的特征源于灵长类动物特有的神经血管和神经胶质关系。尽管灵长类动物血管发育的实验相对不切实际，但它提供了对正常和病理性视网膜血管生成的深入了解，这是其他方法难以实现的。
