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1 | Theories | |
1.1 | Introduction | 1 |
1.1.1 | Senescence - is it definable? | 2 |
1.2 | Ideas on senescence | 3 |
1.2.1 | Is senescence planned? | 3 |
1.2.2 | Organ-based concepts of senescence | 4 |
1.2.3 | Cellular senescence | 22 |
1.2.4 | From senescent cells to genes for ageing | 30 |
1.3 | Resume | 44 |
2 | The retinal image | |
2.1 | Image homoeostasis | 46 |
2.1.1 | Introduction | 46 |
2.2 | A brief survey of the optics of the eye | 46 |
2.2.1 | Lenses | 46 |
2.2.2 | The role of the pupil | 47 |
2.2.3 | The depth of focus | 49 |
2.3 | Static refraction | 52 |
2.3.1 | Glancing backward at evolution | 57 |
2.3.2 | Chromatic aberration | 57 |
2.4 | Accommodation | 59 |
2.4.1 | The measurement of accommodation | 59 |
2.4.2 | The shape of the human crystalline lens | 63 |
2.4.3 | The power of the eye | 68 |
2.4.4 | The photography of the human accommodative process | 70 |
2.4.5 | An outline of the physiology of accommodation | 73 |
2.4.6 | Aspects of presbyopia | 77 |
2.4.7 | A possible evolutionary pressure | 85 |
2.5 | Image degradation | 87 |
2.5.1 | Introduction | 87 |
2.6 | Absorption and diffusion: tea versus egg-flip | 87 |
2.7 | Lenticular absorption of light | 88 |
2.7.1 | Basic notions | 88 |
2.7.2 | Methods of measurement | 89 |
2.7.3 | Absorption and environment | 99 |
2.8 | Lenticular fluorescence | 102 |
2.9 | Scattering of light | 103 |
2.10 | Cataract | 108 |
2.11 | Resume | 111 |
3 | Retinal senescence | |
3.1 | Introduction | 112 |
3.1.1 | Repair processes during cerebral senescence | 116 |
3.2 | Losses in the brain | 118 |
3.3 | Further remarks on retinal vasculature | 124 |
3.4 | Age and the retinal photoreceptors | 127 |
3.4.1 | Receptor populations | 127 |
3.4.2 | The concentration of visual pigments | 131 |
3.5 | The macular pigment | 137 |
3.6 | Other retinal cells | 138 |
3.6.1 | The outer nuclear layer | 138 |
3.6.2 | Ganglion cells and optic nerve fibres | 139 |
3.7 | Bruch's membrane | 140 |
3.8 | The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) | 145 |
3.8.1 | The pigments of the RPE | 145 |
3.9 | Non-visual effects of visible radiation | 162 |
3.9.1 | Blood-flow and light | 162 |
3.9.2 | Photic hazards | 162 |
3.10 | Age-related macular complications | 164 |
3.11 | Resume | 168 |
4 | Senescent vision | |
4.1 | Introduction | 169 |
4.2 | Absolute visual thresholds | 172 |
4.3 | Incremental thresholds, with special reference to short-wavelength stimuli | 177 |
4.4 | Spectral sensitivity | 180 |
4.5 | The visual field | 186 |
4.5.1 | Some physical determinants of field size | 186 |
4.5.2 | Aspects of recent field measurements | 188 |
4.6 | Glare, light adaptation, and related effects | 195 |
4.6.1 | Transient light adaptation | 196 |
4.6.2 | Glare | 199 |
4.6.3 | Another digression on the role of the pupil | 200 |
4.6.4 | Glare and intensity | 201 |
4.7 | Contrast sensitivity: spatial and temporal parameters | 204 |
4.7.1 | A relation to incremental thresholds | 204 |
4.7.2 | Basic data | 205 |
4.7.3 | The role of physical factors | 210 |
4.7.4 | Nervous aspects | 213 |
4.8 | Colour vision | 220 |
4.8.1 | Normal changes | 220 |
4.8.2 | Some results on patients with age-related maculopathies | 224 |
4.9 | Resume | 225 |
5 | Coda | |
5.1 | Correlation or coincidence? | 226 |
5.2 | Vital statistics | 229 |
5.3 | An anthropological aside | 233 |
5.4 | What limits life? | 234 |
5.5 | Limiting functions | 236 |
5.6 | The endpoint: is senescence programmed? | 240 |
5.7 | Resume | 240 |
References | 242 | |
Index | 267 |
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