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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surv Ophthalmol. 2014 Jan 23;59(3):263–285. doi: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2013.09.002

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Three-dimensional schematic of human corneal nerves. Stromal nerve bundles traverse Bowman’s membrane to form the subbasal nerve plexus and innervate the epithelium. Unmyelinated nerve fibers (blue) bifurcate, and are composed of several straight (red) and beaded (green) nerve fibers. Beaded fibers branch orthogonally to terminate in free nerve endings in the anterior epithelium. Adapted from Müller et al. 158 Copyright Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.