Choroidal blood flow in pigeons compensates for decreases in arterial blood pressure

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 273-282

  Reiner, A ^a   Zagvazdin, Y ^b   Fitzgerald, Malinda E C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Blood pressure; Choroidal blood flow; Nitric oxide; Pigeons

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLOOD FLOW; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0037374016     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4835(02)00316-0     Document Type: Article

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