Peripheral endothelial dysfunction in normal pressure glaucoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1710-1714

  Henry, Emer ^b   Newby, David E ^b   Webb, David J ^b   O'Brien, Colm ^a  

^a MATER PRIVATE HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FOREARM; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROPRUSSIDE; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0032991254     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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