Helicobacter pylori infection as a risk factor for primary open-angle glaucoma [5]

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 196-

  Kountouras, Jannis ^a   Zavos, Christos ^a   Grigoriadis, Nikolaos ^a   Deretzi, Georgia ^a   Katsinelos, Panagiotis ^a   Tzilves, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGE; AQUEOUS HUMOR; AUSTRALIA; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFECTION RATE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LETTER; MYANMAR; MYOPIA; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 41249093675     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2008.01705.x     Document Type: Letter

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