R-(+)-verapamil, S-(-)-verapamil, and racemic verapamil inhibit human retinal pigment epithelial cell contraction

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 238, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 537-541

  Faude, Frank ^a   Enzmann, Volker ^a   Pöschmann, Enrico ^a   Hoffmann, Stefan ^a   Wiedemann, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VERAPAMIL; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOCHEMISTRY; VITREORETINOPATHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GELS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; STEREOISOMERISM; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 0033919966     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00007897     Document Type: Article

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