Latest Ciliary body Stories
ALBANY, N.Y., April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Z Lens LLC announces a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant award to support development of its novel accommodating intraocular lens (IOL). This $150,000 Phase I grant enables Z Lens to measure the forces of accommodation in the eye using a proprietary technique to capture the movement the ciliary body exerts on the zonules. Current IOLs are unable to capture the normal forces exerted on the...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Glaucoma "“ the second leading cause of blindness in the world "“ is now thought to run in families. A team of investigators from Vanderbilt University and the University of Florida offer an eye opening finding where they have just identified a novel candidate gene for the most frequent form of the eye disorder, primary open angle glaucoma (POAG). The findings present new insights into glaucoma pathology, which could lead to targeted treatment...
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The Zonules of Zinn, also known as Zinn’s membrane and ciliary zonule, is a ring of fibrous strands connecting the ciliary body with the crystalline lens of the eye. The zonule of Zinn is split into two layers: a thin layer, which lines with the hyaloid fossa, and a thick layer, which is a collection of zonular fibers. Together, these fibers are known as the suspensory ligament of the lens. When color granules are displaced from the Zonules of Zinn, by friction against the lens, the...
