Functional and morphological assessment of age-related changes in the choroid and outer retina in pigeons

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 299-317

  Fitzgerald, Malinda E C ^a,b,g   Tolley, Elizabeth ^a   Frase, Sharon ^a,c   Zagvazdin, Yuri ^a,d   Miller, Ronald F ^e,f   Hodos, William ^e   Reiner, Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^d Nova Southeastern University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g Dept of Anatomy and Neurobiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Birds; Horoid; Retina; Visual function

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EYE BLOOD FLOW; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGEON; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHOROID; COLUMBIDAE; FEMALE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; ROC CURVE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0035010322     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523801182143     Document Type: Article

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