Optimized architecture for nutrition in the avascular retina of megachiroptera

Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series C: Anatomia Histologia Embryologia

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 382-388

  Brudenall, D K ^a   Schwab, I R ^a,b,c   Lloyd III, W ^a,b   Giorgi, P P ^a,d   Graydon, M L ^a,d  

^a Animal Eye Services   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c QUEENSLAND EYE INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BAT; CHOROID; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA VEIN; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CHOROID; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; RETINA; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; RETINAL VESSELS;

MEGACHIROPTERA; PTEROPUS POLIOCEPHALUS; PTEROPUS SCAPULATUS;

EID: 34548522558     PISSN: 03402096     EISSN: 14390264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0264.2007.00779.x     Document Type: Article

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