The effect of intraocular pressure on human and rabbit scleral permeability

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3054-3058

  Rudnick, David E ^a,b,c   Noonan, Jeremy S ^b   Geroski, Dayle H ^a   Prausnitz, Mark R ^b   Edelhauser, Henry F ^a  

^a EMORY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; DEXAMETHASONE; WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCLERA;

ANIMALS; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUORESCEINS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PERMEABILITY; RABBITS; SCLERA; WATER;

EID: 0032710264     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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