Corneal response to femtosecond laser photodisruption in the rabbit

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 835-843

  Morishige, Naoyuki ^a,b   Kesler Diaz, Anna ^a   Wahlert, Andrew J ^a   Kurtz, Ronald M ^a   Juhasz, Tibor ^a   Sarayba, Melvin ^a   Jester, James V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

corneal haze; in vivo confocal microscopy; IntraLase; keratocyte activation; LASIK; rabbits

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA SURGERY; CORNEA THICKNESS; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER MICROSCOPY; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TISSUE FLAP;

ANIMALS; CORNEAL OPACITY; CORNEAL STROMA; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RABBITS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 42749090549     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.02.012     Document Type: Article

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