Plasma thymulin and nerve growth factor levels in patients with primary open angle glaucoma and elevated intraocular pressure

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 750-752

  Noureddin, Baha' N ^a   Al Haddad, Christiane E ^a   Bashshur, Ziad ^a   Safieh Garabedian, Bared ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; THYMULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIMARY GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST;

ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; THYMIC FACTOR, CIRCULATING;

EID: 33745245011     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0143-z     Document Type: Article

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