Modulation of aqueous humor outflow facility by the Rho kinase-specific inhibitor Y-27632

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1029-1037

  Vasantha Rao, P ^a   Deng, P F ^a   Kumar, J ^a   Epstein, D L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; ACTIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; RHO FACTOR; RHO KINASE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MODULATION; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SCHLEMM CANAL; SWINE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

ACTINS; ADULT; AMIDES; ANIMALS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL SIZE; CELLS, CULTURED; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MYOSINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PYRIDINES; SWINE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 0035066006     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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