Oxidative stress and glaucoma: injury in the anterior segment of the eye

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 173, Issue , 2008, Pages 385-407

  Sacca S C ^a   Izzotti, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

DNA damage; oxidative stress; primary open angle glaucoma; trabecular meshwork

Indexed keywords

ADAMANTANE; AMANTADINE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ENDOTHELIN; FREE RADICAL; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; MEMANTINE; METALLOPROTEINASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR;

ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; APOPTOSIS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CELL DEGENERATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EYE INJURY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GINSENG; GLAUCOMA; HEREDITY; HYPOXIA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW; TEA; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; VITREOUS BODY;

ANIMALS; ENDOTHELINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EYE; EYE INJURIES; FREE RADICALS; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; METALLOPROTEASES; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 53049090207     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)01127-8     Document Type: Review

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