Neuroprotective effect of transcorneal electrical stimulation on the acute phase of optic nerve injury

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2356-2361

  Miyake, Ken Ichiro ^a,b   Yoshida, Miho ^a   Inoue, Yoshitsugu ^b   Hata, Yoshio ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; ISOTOPE LABELING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; TRANSCORNEAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; CORNEA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; AXONS; CORNEA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE DEGENERATION; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34250179135     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-1329     Document Type: Article

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