Regulation of subfoveal choroidal blood flow in age-related macular degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1581-1586

  Pournaras, Constantin J ^a,e   Logean, Eric ^b   Riva, Charles E ^b,c   Petrig, Benno L ^b   Chamot, Stéphane R ^b   Coscas, Gabriel ^d   Soubrane, Gisèle ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Institut de Recherche en Ophtalmologie   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^e NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOROID PLEXUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOROID; EXERCISE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; EXERCISE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 33645988868     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0434     Document Type: Article

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