The effect of urocanic acid on graft rejection in an experimental model of orthotopic corneal transplantation in rabbits

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-68

  Filipec, Martin ^a   Letko, Erik ^a   Hašková, Zdenka ^a   Jeníčková, Dagmar ^a   Holler, Petr ^b   Jančárek, Alexander ^c   Holán, Vladimír ^d  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; UROCANIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EXCIMER LASER; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISOMER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SUBCONJUNCTIVAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

EID: 0031913348     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050044     Document Type: Article

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