Natural protective mechanisms against endoscopic white-light injury in the fetal lamb eye

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 124-127

  Deprest, Jan A ^a   Luks, François I ^a,b   Peers, Koen H E ^a   D'Olieslager, Jan ^a   Van Ginderdeuren, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNION FLUID; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EYE PROTECTION; EYELID; FETUS; LAMB; LIGHT DAMAGE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA INJURY;

ANIMALS; EYE; EYE INJURIES; FETOSCOPY; LIGHT; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; SHEEP;

EID: 0033019203     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(99)00009-5     Document Type: Article

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