Effects of storage time on the mechanical properties of rabbit peripapillary sclera after enucleation

Current Eye Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 465-470

  Girard, Michael ^a,b   Suh, Jun Kyo Francis ^a   Hart, Richard T ^c   Burgoyne, Claude F ^a,b   Downs, J Crawford ^a,b  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Glaucoma; Sclera

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENUCLEATION; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCLERA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STORAGE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VISCOELASTICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; EYE ENUCLEATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRESERVATION, BIOLOGICAL; RABBITS; SCLERA; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 34249026031     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02713680701273792     Document Type: Article

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