Figure 4. M4 ipRGC suffered significant loss following the chronic IOP elevation.

(a) Confocal images of flat mounted retinas from a control eye and an OHT eye eight-months post laser surgery immunostained with melanopsin and SMI-32 antibodies. White crosses denote melanopsin-positive cells and violet crosses denote large cells positive for both melanopsin and SMI-32. Scale bar is 20 μm. (b) Quantification of M4 cell density in control and OHT retinas. (c) Contrast sensitivity measured at 0.103 and 0.192 cycle per degree (c/d) of control and OHT group eight-months post laser surgery. **: P < 0.01; ***: P < 0.001 in Mann-Whitney test. Data presented as Mean ± SEM.