Increased Ocular Blood Vessel Numbers and Sizes Following Chronic Sympathectomy

These findings show that sympathetic innervation is critical in regulating choroidal and retinal vascularity, and that chronic loss of sympathetic activity may contribute to abnormal vascular proliferation in diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.

Increased Ocular Blood Vessel Numbers and Sizes Following Chronic Sympathectomy in Rat

Jena J. Steinle^{b, a, f1}, Janet D. Pierce^a, Richard L. Clancy^a and Peter G. Smith^{b, a, f2}

Experimental Eye Research

Volume 74, Issue 6, June 2002, Pages 761-768