L-arginine-threonine-arginine (RTR) tetramer peptide inhibits ulceration in the alkali-injured rabbit cornea

Cornea

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1187-1192

  Pfister, Roswell R ^a,b   Sommers, Charnell Inglis ^a  

^a Eye Research Foundation   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ac proline glycine proline chemoattractant; Alkali injury; Arginine threonine arginine tetramer complementary peptide; Cornea; Polymorphonuclear leukocytes

Indexed keywords

ALKALI; ARGINYLTHREONYLARGININE; DEXTRO ARGINYLTHREONYLARGININE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; SODIUM HYDROXIDE; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA ULCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; CORNEA; CORNEAL ULCER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE BURNS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; MALE; NEUTROPHILS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROLINE; RABBITS; SODIUM HYDROXIDE;

EID: 33845776580     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31802ca33a     Document Type: Article

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