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The relation between the ciliary muscle and the trabecular meshwork and its importance for the effect of miotics on aqueous outflow resistance

A study in two contrasting monkey species, Macaca irus and Cercopithecus aethiops

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  1. Department of Anatomy, Marburg a. d. Lahn, Germany

    J. W. Rohen & E. Lütjen

  2. Department of Pharmacology, Uppsala, Sweden

    E. Bárány

  3. Department of Physiology, Makerere Medical School, Kampala, Uganda

    E. Bárány

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This work was supported by Research Grant NB-3637 to E.Bárány from the U.S. Public Health Service, Bethesda, Md. and by a grant to J. W.Rohen from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bad Godesberg.

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Rohen, J.W., Lütjen, E. & Bárány, E. The relation between the ciliary muscle and the trabecular meshwork and its importance for the effect of miotics on aqueous outflow resistance. Albrecht von Graefes Arch. Klin. Ophthalmol. 172, 23–47 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00577152

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