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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 28.
Published in final edited form as: Vision Res. 2010 Aug 6;51(2):243–250. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.08.003

Table 1.

Dendritic parameters of LGN relay neurons in normal monkeys, and vehicle-treated (VT) glaucoma and memantine-treated (MT) glaucoma monkeys

Dendrite complexity,
Mean ± SD
Total dendrite length, µm
Mean ± SD
Group, ID Layer 1 Layer 6 Layer 1 Layer 6
Normal
    S1 22.3 ± 4.1 22.8 ± 5.7 35.1 ± 6.7 36.4 ± 9.1
    S2 22.9 ± 4.9 21.6 ± 4.7 38.5 ± 8.0 31.1 ± 7.4
    S4 22.7 ± 4.3 20.2 ± 3.8 37.0 ± 7.2 33.0 ± 6.9
    S6 26.2 ± 6.2 20.6 ± 4.4 43.1 ± 10.7 32.7 ± 6.5
    S7 23.2 ± 4.8 20.8 ± 5.6 36.2 ± 7.3 37.0 ± 9.1
    S10 24.9 ± 4.7 21.3 ± 4.6 41.1 ± 8.3 32.2 ± 7.7
    Mean ± SD 23.7 ± 1.5 21.2 ± 0.9 38.5 ± 3.1 33.7 ± 2.4
Vehicle-treated glaucoma
    91 11.4 ± 4.7 10.9 ± 4.4 18.4 ± 6.9 16.3 ± 6.1
    92 9.5 ± 3.1 9.5 ± 2.9 16.2 ± 5.8 15.0 ± 3.9
    93 10.6 ± 3.2 9.4 ± 2.8 16.8 ± 5.5 13.5 ± 4.5
    96 10.5 ± 4.2 10.7 ± 3.0 18.7 ± 6.2 18.1 ± 5.4
    98 11.7 ± 4.5 12.4 ± 4.5 19.0 ± 7.1 18.0 ± 6.8
    105 12.2 ± 5.2 11.7 ± 4.1 19.2 ± 7.2 17.4 ± 6.5
    106 12.2 ± 4.6 12.8 ± 4.2 20.1 ± 7.2 18.8 ± 6.8
    Mean ± SD 11.2 ± 1.0 11.1 ± 1.3 18.4 ± 1.4 16.7 ± 1.9
    P value(a)   < 0.0001   < 0.0001   < 0.0001   < 0.0001
Memantine-treated glaucoma
    94 18.2 ± 6.2 14.6 ± 6.0 29.7 ± 8.5 22.6 ± 9.3
    95 12.0 ± 3.3 12.6 ± 3.6 21.0 ± 6.4 18.6 ± 5.4
    97 15.6 ± 6.9 14.5 ± 4.7 27.4 ± 10.2 24.5 ± 7.2
    99 16.4 ± 6.3 15.2 ± 5.1 28.3 ± 9.4 24.0 ± 8.0
    100 13.4 ± 3.6 12.8 ± 3.5 21.5 ± 6.4 19.0 ± 5.3
    101 10.6 ± 3.7 12.5 ± 3.4 18.3 ± 6.4 19.9 ± 5.2
    102 16.6 ± 7.7 16.5 ± 5.7 26.8 ± 12.5 25.7 ± 10.3
    107 14.5 ± 5.7 13.6 ± 6.0 23.8 ± 9.2 20.4 ± 8.9
    Mean ± SD 14.7 ± 2.5 14.0 ± 1.4 24.6 ± 4.1 21.8 ± 2.7
    P value(b)   0.0048   0.0011   0.0022   0.0012

SD = Standard Deviation

(a)

t-test values for comparison between VT glaucoma group and normal group

(b)

t-test values for comparison between MT glaucoma group and VT glaucoma group