Gap junctions between optic nerve head astrocytes
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From The Wilmer Institute, W. K. Kellogg Foundation Laboratories, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. This investigation was conducted under a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship supported by a Bob Hope-Fight For Sight Award of the National Council to Combat Blindness, Inc., New York, N. Y. Submitted for publication Nov. 30, 1976. Reprint requests: Dr. Roger C. Wales, 156 Glen Castle Road, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7M 4N6. ^Present address: Department of Ophthalmology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6.
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Gap junctions between optic nerve head astrocytes.
Astrocytes of the primate and human optic nerve head are joined to each other by the gap junction type of intercellular membrane specialization. Although the precise function of these contacts is not fully determined, they may serve such diverse roles as adhesive bonding and intercellular electrical and chemical coupling.
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