TY - BOOK AU - Raghda Abdelsalam Nagaty AU - Asmaa Ismail Ahmed , AU - Azza Khalil Amer , AU - Mohamed Shehata Abdalla , TI - Association of endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthetase (eNOS) gene polymorphism with glaucoma in Egyptian patients / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Raghda Abdelsalam Nagaty , KW - Glaucoma KW - Nitric oxide KW - VNTR N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology; Issued also as CD N2 - Glaucoma is a generic term for an etiologically heterogeneous but clinically similar dysfunction and death of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) often associated with elevated intra ocular pressure. It is the leading neurodegenerative cause of bindness and the second leading cause of blindness worldwide after cataract. Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG) is a glaucoma with a visually open anterior chamber angle or drain (by gonioscopy), and without underlying secondary ocular disease ER -