Subthreshold transpupillary thermotherapy reduces experimental choroidal neovascularization in the mouse without collateral damage to the neural retina

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1969-1974

  Ming, Yue ^a,b   Algvere, Peep V ^a   Odergren, Anne ^a   Berglin, Lennart ^a   Van Der Ploeg, Ingeborg ^a   Seregard, Stefan ^a   Kvanta, Anders ^a  

^a ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; KRYPTON LASER; LASER COAGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA INJURY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSPUPILLARY THERMOTHERAPY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; EYE INJURY; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PUPIL; RADIATION DOSE; RETINA; RETINA DISEASE;

ANIMALS; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE INJURIES; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; PUPIL; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES;

EID: 3042677847     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-1329     Document Type: Article

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