The Blood-Retinal Barriers

I General Aspects of Membrane Permeability.- Structure and Function of Cell Membranes.- Biophysical Aspects of Membrane Permeability.- II Sites and Functions of the Blood-Brain and Blood-Retinal Barriers.- Cerebral Endothelium, Blood-Brain-Barrier and the Astrocyte Membrane.- Cerebrovascular Permeability in the Normal Brain and Following Osmotic Opening.- Sites and Functions of the Blood-Retinal Barriers.- III Transport at the Blood-Brain and Blood-Retinal Barriers.- Alterations of Amino Acid Transport in the Central Nervous System.- Transport Functions of the Blood-Retinal Barrier System and the Microenvironment of the Retina.- Drug Exchanges between Blood and Vitreous.- Drainage of Intraocular Fluids.- IV Methods of Evaluation of the Blood-Retinal Barriers.- Vitreous Fluorophometry.- Fluorescein Angiography and the Blood-Retinal Barriers.- V Pathology of the Blood-Retinal Barriers.- Pathology of the Blood-Retinal Barrier.- Retinal Edema: Postulated Mechanisms(s).- Acute Hypertension and Experimental Diabetes: Evaluation of their Effects on Blood-Ocular Barriers.- Experimental Inner Retinal Ischemia and Blood-Retinal Barriers.- Experimental Retinal Angiogenesis.- VI Clinical Significance of Alteration of the Blood-Retinal Barriers.- Diseases Affecting the Inner Blood-Retinal Barrier.- Significance of Alteration of the Outer Blood-Retinal Barrier.- Participants.