Melanocortins are comparable to corticosteroids as inhibitors of traumatic ocular inflammation in rabbits

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 239, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 840-844

  Naveh, Nava ^a   Marshall, John ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; INTERMEDIN; MELANOCORTIN; PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD EYE BARRIER; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA LIMBUS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; EDEMA; EYE INFLAMMATION; EYE INJURY; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPEREMIA; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; AQUEOUS HUMOR; BLOOD-AQUEOUS BARRIER; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVAL DISEASES; DEXAMETHASONE; EDEMA; EYE INJURIES, PENETRATING; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HYPEREMIA; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MALE; RABBITS; UVEITIS, ANTERIOR;

EID: 0035198593     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-001-0379-1     Document Type: Article

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