Two-year preclinical testing of perfluoropolyether polymer as a corneal inlay

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 574-581

  Ruo, Zhong Xie ^a   Evans, Margaret D M ^a,b   Bojarski, Barbara ^a   Hughes, Timothy C ^a,b   Chan, Grace Y ^a,b   Nguyen, Xuan ^a,b   Wilkie, John S ^a,b   McLean, Keith M ^a,b   Vannas, Antti ^a,c   Sweeney, Deborah F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c CENTRAL MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERFLUOROPOLYETHER POLYMER; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN; BIOMATERIAL; ETHER DERIVATIVE; FIBRONECTIN; FLUOROCARBON; PERFLUOROPOLYETHER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPLANT; MICROSCOPY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; DRUG SCREENING; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMPLANTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RABBIT; TIME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CORNEA; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ETHERS; FIBRONECTINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FLUOROCARBONS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RABBITS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33644856920     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0872     Document Type: Article

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