Keratocyte apoptosis and corneal antioxidant enzyme activities after refractive corneal surgery

Eye

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 63-68

  Bilgihan, K ^a   Bilgihan, A ^a   Adiguzel, U ^a   Sezer, C ^a   Yis, O ^a   Akyol, G ^a   Hasanreisoglu, B ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Gpx; Keratocyte apoptosis; Refractive surgery; SOD

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; DNA FRAGMENT; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA SURGERY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; KERATECTOMY; KERATOMILEUSIS; MICROSCOPY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0036200320     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6700065     Document Type: Article

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