Enzymatic, clinical and histologic evaluation of corneal tissues in experimental fungal keratitis in rabbits

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 433-442

  Gopinathan, Usha ^a   Ramakrishna, T ^b   Willcox, Mark ^c   Rao, Ch Mohan ^b   Balasubramanian, D ^a   Kulkarni, Ajay ^a   Vemuganti, Geeta Kashyap ^a   Rao, Gullapalli N ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^c VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cornea; Fungal keratitis; Pathogenesis; Protease inhibitors; Proteolytic activity

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COLLAGEN; EDETIC ACID; METALLOPROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FUSARIUM SOLANI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; KERATOMYCOSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RABBIT; ZYMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034770986     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.2000.0971     Document Type: Article

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