Adrenoceptors affect accommodation by modulating cholinergic activity

Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 66-70

  Otsuka, Norika ^a   Yoshitomi, Takeshi ^a   Tsuchiya, Kunihiko ^a   Ukai, Kazuhiko ^a   Ishikawa, Satoshi ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Adrenoceptors; Isoproterenol; Sympathetic innervation; Timolol

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; BUNAZOSIN; ISOPRENALINE; PHENYLEPHRINE; TIMOLOL;

ACCOMMODATION; ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031906531     PISSN: 00215155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-5155(97)00106-8     Document Type: Article

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