Glaucoma drops control intraocular pressure and protect optic nerves in a rat model of glaucoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 526-531

  Morrison, John C ^a,b   Nylander, Kristina B ^a   Lauer, Andreas K ^a   Cepurna, William O ^a   Johnson, Elaine ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APRACLONIDINE; ARTIFICIAL TEAR; BETAXOLOL; TEARS NATURALE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; BETAXOLOL; CLONIDINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 0031887403     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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