Effect of one week of levobunolol HCl 0.5% on the human retinal circulation

Current Eye Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 191-196

  Bloom, Adam H ^a   Grunwald, Juan E ^a   DuPont, Joan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Human retinal blood flow; Laser Doppler velocimetry; Levobunolol; Volumetric blood flow rate

Indexed keywords

LEVOBUNOLOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ERYTHROCYTE; EYE FUNDUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA VEIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LEVOBUNOLOL; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 0030975307     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.16.3.191.15415     Document Type: Article

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