Evaluation of the human choroidal melanoma rabbit model for studying microcirculation patterns with confocal ICG and histology

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 671-678

  Mueller, Arthur J ^a,b   Folberg, Robert ^c   Freeman, William R ^a   Bartsch, Dirk Uwe ^a   Bergeron Lynn, Germaine ^a   Mehaffey, Mary G ^c   Kan Mitchell, June ^d   Huang, Xiuqing ^d   Jian, Gong ^a   Avila, Cesar ^a   Taskintuna, Ibrahim ^a   Cheng, Lingyun ^a   Wang, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Human choroidal melanoma; Indocyanine green angiography; Microcirculation pattern; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL SUSPENSION; CHOROID MELANOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT REJECTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

EID: 0033001809     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1998.0650     Document Type: Article

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