Cholinergic inhibition by botulinum toxin in a rat model of congenital glaucoma raises intraocular pressure

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 826-831

  Gatzioufas, Z ^a,b   Charalambous, P ^a   Seitz, B ^b   Evers, S ^c   Jonescu Cuypers, C ^b   Krause, M ^b   Thanos, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; ENZYME ANTIBODY; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYME RELEASE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE A; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; DEPRESSION, CHEMICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 45249117887     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2007.128033     Document Type: Article

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