Figure 5. Illustration showing the average
number of cells/mm
2 for all four types of epiretinal
membranes. The brackets at the left of
Table 1 show which membranes
were used to generate this figure. For each membrane type (i.e.,
disease condition) the average number of cells/mm
2 equals
the total number of nuclei/mm (gray bars) divided by the number of
epiretinal membranes (ERMs) in the group. The average number of glial
cells (green bars) equals the number of glial fibrillary acidic protein
(GFAP) positive cells that were also labeled with K
i-67/mm
2
in each ERM divided by the number of ERMs in the group. The value for
immune cells (ricin labeled cells, blue bars) was calculated the same
way while “unidentified” equals the value for cells that were K
i-67
positive
but not labeled with any other markers (black bars).
Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) membranes had the highest number
of dividing cells. Abbreviations: proliferative diabetic retinopathy
(PDR); proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR); post–retinal detachment
(ERMpRD); idiopathic ERM (iERM).