Adaptation of homeostatic ocular surface epithelium to chronic treatment with the opioid antagonist naltrexone

Cornea

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 821-829

  Zagon, Ian S ^a,b   Sassani, Joseph W ^a   McLaughlin, Patricia J ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; Cornea; Epithelium; Naltrexone

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; NALTREXONE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; THYMIDINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONJUNCTIVA EPITHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFECT; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THICKNESS; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA; EPITHELIUM; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; MITOSIS; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750443642     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ico.0000224646.66472.aa     Document Type: Article

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