The antidepressant hypericin inhibits progression of experimental proliferative vitreoretinopathy

Current Eye Research

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 323-329

  Tahara, Yoshihisa ^a   Sakamoto, Taiji ^a   Oshima, Yuji ^a   Ishibashi, Tatsuro ^a   Inomata, Hajime ^a   Murata, Toshinori ^b   Hinton, David R ^b   Ryan, Stephen J ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypericin; Proliferative vitreoretinopathy; Protein kinase C; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; HYPERICIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; HISTOLOGY; INTRAVITREAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA DETACHMENT; VITRECTOMY; VITREORETINOPATHY;

EID: 0032694690     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.19.4.323.5302     Document Type: Article

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