Tetrodotoxin: Anesthetic activity in the de-epithelialized cornea

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 236, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 790-794

  Schwartz, Daniel M ^a   Duncan, Keith G ^a   Fields, Howard L ^a   Jones, Matthew R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; DEBRIDEMENT; EYELID REFLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; WOUND HEALING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; CORNEA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RABBITS; TETRODOTOXIN; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031720313     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050160     Document Type: Article

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