[Morphological rationale for autografting of musculus rectus ocularis fibers at revascular optic nerve decompression...

The authors made a morphological study of the early proposed and clinically tested revascular optic nerve decompression operation developed to improve blood supply to the initial portion of the optic nerve in glaucoma-induced optic neuropathy. An experiment was carried out on 11 rabbits. The operated and control eyes were enucleated 1, 4, and 6 months after surgery. The experiment has established that muscle autografting into the retroscleral and paraneural space of the optic nerve is followed by a number of cellular reactions with the active participation of satellite cells, some of which may be associated with regenerative processes and presumably regarded as one of the cell autotherapy modalities.