Neuron-specific enolase-containing cells in the rhesus monkey trabecular meshwork.

Neuron-specific enolase (NSE) localizes immunohistochemically to a discontinuous band of cell clusters in the trabecular meshwork of the anterior segment of the rhesus monkey eye. To date, this enolase isomer has been found exclusively in neurons or in cells of the diffuse neuroendocrine system. On this basis, its presence provides presumptive evidence for neuroregulatory cells in the primate trabecular meshwork.