Choroidal blood flow regulation and possible implications to glaucoma

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 111-112

  Rechtman, Ehud ^a   Harris, Alon ^b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1; NITRIC OXIDE;

AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; CHOROID; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; EYE BLOOD FLOW; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; ISCHEMIA; MEDIATOR RELEASE; METABOLIC REGULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PATHOGENESIS; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHOROID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; RATS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 41249093451     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2008.01690.x     Document Type: Editorial

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