Inhaled carbon monoxide increases retinal and choroidal blood flow in healthy humans

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4275-4280

  Resch, Hemma ^a   Zawinka, Claudia ^a   Weigert, Günther ^a   Schmetterer, Leopold ^a   Garhöfer, Gerhard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXEMIA; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA FOVEA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VASCULARIZATION;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN; CHOROID; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 33644666612     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0417     Document Type: Article

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