Nonvascular contractile cells in sciera and choroid of humans and monkeys

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1765-1774

  Poukens, Vadims ^a   Glasgow, Ben J ^b,c   Deiner, Joseph L ^d  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Laboratory Medicine   (Taiwan)

^c Department of Neurology ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CHILD; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; FETUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE ENDING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLERA;

ACTINS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOROID; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MACACA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NADPH DEHYDROGENASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SCLERA; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0031659015     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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