Endothelial cell damage after riboflavin-ultraviolet-A treatment in the rabbit

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1786-1790

  Wollensak, Gregor ^a,d   Spoerl, Eberhard ^a   Wilsch, Michaela ^b   Seiler, Theo ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOFLAVIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; CORNEA THICKNESS; CYTOTOXICITY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KERATOCONUS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PACHOMETRY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TISSUE NECROSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

EID: 0141819135     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0886-3350(03)00343-2     Document Type: Article

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