Vascular changes in retinas of spontaneously hypertensive rats demonstrated by corrosion casts

Ophthalmic Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 12-23

  Bhutto, Imran A ^a   Amemiya, Tsugio ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corrosion casts; Essential hypertension; Retinal capillary changes; Scanning electron microscopy; Spontaneously hypertensive rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM; HISTOLOGY; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA CAPILLARY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0030937349     PISSN: 00303747     EISSN: 14230259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000267986     Document Type: Article

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