Pressure-induced changes in axial eye length of chick and tree shrew: Significance of myofibroblasts in the sclera

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 758-763

  Phillips, John R ^a,b   McBrien, Neville A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; ACTIN;

A SCAN; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE REFRACTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCLERA; STRETCHING; ANIMAL; CHOROID; ELASTICITY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EYE; FIBROBLAST; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SCANDENTIA;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHOROID; ELASTICITY; EYE; FIBROBLASTS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; SCLERA; TUPAIA;

EID: 1542532066     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0732     Document Type: Article

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