Concomitant effect of topical ubiquinone Q10 and vitamin E to prevent keratocyte apoptosis after excimer laser photoablation in rabbits

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 135-139

  Brancato, Rosario ^a   Fiore, Tito ^a   Papucci, Laura ^a   Schiavone, Nicola ^a   Formigli, Lucia ^a   Zecchi Orlandini, Sandra ^a   Gobbi, Pier Giorgio ^a   Carones, Francesco ^a   Donnini, Martino ^a   Lapucci, Andrea ^a   Capaccioli, Sergio ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; DNA FRAGMENT; EYE DROPS; UBIDECARENONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; EXCIMER LASER; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TECHNIQUE;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CORNEA; CYTOPROTECTION; DNA; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FIBROBLASTS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; RABBITS; UBIQUINONE; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0036303405     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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