Excimer laser corneal surgery and free oxygen radicals

Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 154-157

  Bilgihan, Kamil ^a,b   Bilgihan, Ayse ^a   Akata, Fikret ^a   Hasanreisoǧlu, Berati ^a   Türközkan, Nurten ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Excimer laser photoablation; Free oxygen radicals; Lipid peroxidation; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

LIPID PEROXIDE; OXYGEN RADICAL; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA SURGERY; EXCIMER LASER; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CORNEA; FREE RADICALS; HEAT; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LIPID PEROXIDES; RABBITS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SUPEROXIDES;

EID: 0029760219     PISSN: 00215155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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