Normal tension glaucoma and primary open angle glaucoma associated with increased platelet aggregation

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 293-299

  Matsumoto, Mitsuo ^a   Matsuhashi, Hideaki ^a   Nakazawa, Mitsuru ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ANTIPLASMIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; COLLAGEN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; PLASMIN; TWIN ARGININE TRANSLOCASE COMPLEX, E COLI; TWIN-ARGININE TRANSLOCASE COMPLEX, E COLI;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PROTHROMBIN TIME; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADULT; AGED; ANTIPLASMIN; COLLAGEN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOLYSIS; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PLASMIN; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PROTHROMBIN TIME;

EID: 0035321787     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.193.293     Document Type: Article

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