Effects of topical vitamin E on keratocyte apoptosis after traditional photorefractive keratectomy

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 215, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 192-196

  Bilgihan, Kamil ^a,b   Adiguzel, Ufuk ^a   Sezer, Cem ^a   Akyol, Gulen ^a   Hasanreisoglu, Berati ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Umit mah   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Keratocyte apoptosis; Reactive oxygen species; Refractive corneal surgery; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; DIGOXIGENIN; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; EXCIMER LASER; KERATECTOMY; KERATOMILEUSIS; MICROSCOPY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RABBIT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CORNEAL STROMA; DNA; FIBROBLASTS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; RABBITS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SURGICAL FLAPS; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0034994179     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000050857     Document Type: Article

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