A Comparative Study on the Fine Structure of Retinal Cells in the Common Marmoset and Cynomolgus Monkey

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  • コモンマーモセット(Common Marmoset)およびカニクイザル(Cynomolgus Monkey)の網膜微細構造の比較

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<p>A comparative study was made of the fine structure of retinal cells in adult common marmosets and cynomolgus monkeys aged 6-8 years. The retina of these two primate species consisted of ten layers: pigmented epithelium layer, bacillary layer, outer limiting membrane, outer nuclear layer, outer plexiform layer, inner nuclear layer, inner plexiform layer, ganglion cell layer, optic nerve fiber layer and inner limiting membrane. Each layer in the retina of the common marmoset was compared with that of the cynomolgus monkey. The pigmented epithelium of the common marmoset was rather squamous and poor in phagocytosis of the outer segments. The photoreceptor cells in both species had a fascicle of thin actin filaments with the crossstriations at about 70nm intervals in the inner segments. The fascicle in the common marmoset was wider and longer with a few fibrils between the crossstriations, and ran through almost all the inner segments. This fascicle in the cynomolgus monkey was present only in the proximal (myoid) portion of the inner segments, and the fibrils were obscure between the crossstriations. The other structures were similar in both species. These results indicate that the fine structure of the retina of both primate species may be very similar.</p>

Journal

  • Animal Eye Research

    Animal Eye Research 13 (3-4), 3-4_139-3-4_146, 1994

    Japanese Society of Comparative and Veterinary Ophthalmology

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  • CRID
    1391131406292420736
  • NII Article ID
    130007960027
  • DOI
    10.11254/jscvo.13.3-4_139
  • ISSN
    21858446
    02867486
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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