Friday, June 14, 2013

A novel part of the human body - Polish Radio

discovered a new part of the human body

has a thickness of 15 microns, but they will have to rewrite the textbooks of anatomy.

Discovery Dr. Harminder Dua at the University of Nottingham facilitate operations. Dr Dua recently discovered a new layering of the human eye, more specifically – in the cornea. He called it … Dua layer.

It is located behind the cornea. Previously it was thought that there is a five layers. Dua and his team discovered six, blowing air eye corneas of donor organs and watching them under the electron microscope, layer by layer.

tear tissue layer of liquid Dua will focus on the cornea. According to Dr. Dua, knowing facilitate corneal transplants and treatment of eye diseases that party.

– That’s a lot of discovery that makes ophthalmology textbooks need to be rewritten – says the discoverer. – From a clinical point of view, there are many conditions that affect the back of the cornea. Already, doctors begin to associate it with the injuries that layer.

The study appeared in the pages of Ophthalmology.


Discovery Dr. Harminder Dua at the University of Nottingham facilitate operations. Dr Dua recently discovered a new layering of the human eye, more specifically – in the cornea. He called it … Dua layer.

It is located behind the cornea. Previously it was thought that there is a five layers. Dua and his team discovered six, blowing air into the eye corneas of donor organs and watching them under the electron microscope, layer by layer.

tear tissue layer of liquid Dua will focus on the cornea. According to Dr. Dua, knowing facilitate corneal transplants and treatment of eye diseases that party.

– That’s a lot of discovery that makes ophthalmology textbooks need to be rewritten – says the discoverer. – From a clinical point of view, there are many conditions that affect the back of the cornea. Already, doctors begin to associate it with the injuries that layer.

The study appeared in the pages of Ophthalmology.

(G / PopSci)

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