Nitric oxide/guanylate cyclase pathways and flow in anterior segment perfusion

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 936-941

  Schneemann, Andrea ^a   Dijkstra, Berlinde G ^b   van den Berg, Thomas J ^a   Kamphuis, Willem ^a   Hoyng, Philip F J ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CYCLIC GMP; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; AQUEOUS HUMOR FLOW; AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INHIBITION KINETICS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; ORGAN CULTURE; ORGAN PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 0036952505     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0559-7     Document Type: Article

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