Effects of latrunculin-B on outflow facility and trabecular meshwork structure in human eyes

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1991-1998

  Ethier, C Ross ^a,b   Read, A Thomas ^a   Chan, Darren W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LATRUNCULIN B; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; MARINE TOXIN; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EYE REFRACTION; EYEBANK; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOLOGY; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCHLEMM CANAL; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; AGED; ANIMAL; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CELL WALL; ENUCLEATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; SECRETION; SPONGE (PORIFERA); ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CELL WALL; EYE ENUCLEATION; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MARINE TOXINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; PORIFERA; THIAZOLES; THIAZOLIDINES; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 33744765827     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0327     Document Type: Article

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