Early conjunctival changes following treatment with metipranolol and preservatives are not reversible with dexamethasone

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 235, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 452-459

  Mietz, Holger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; COLLAGEN; DEXA SINE SE; DEXAMETHASONE; METIPRANOLOL; PRESERVATIVE; RETINOL PALMITATE; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVA DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GLAUCOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METIPRANOLOL; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; PRESERVATIVES, PHARMACEUTICAL; RABBITS;

EID: 0030796617     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00947066     Document Type: Article

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