Nitric oxide has a vasodilatory role in cat optic nerve head during flicker stimuli

Microvascular Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-26

  Buerk, Donald G ^a   Riva, Charles E ^b   Cranstoun, Stephen D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LUMINANCE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION; VITREOUS BODY;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0030200913     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mvre.1996.0040     Document Type: Article

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