Modulation of wound healing during and after glaucoma surgery

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 173, Issue , 2008, Pages 237-254

  Georgoulas, Stelios ^a,b   Dahlmann Noor, Annegret ^a   Brocchini, Stephen ^a,b   Khaw, Peng Tee ^b  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cell motility; cellular proliferation; drug delivery; eye; glaucoma; glaucoma filtration surgery; growth factors; intraocular pressure; matrix metalloproteinases; scarring; TGF ; trabeculectomy; vascularization; wound healing

Indexed keywords

3 AMINOPROPIONITRILE; 4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; ACTIVIN; ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTIFIBROTIC AGENT; APTAMER; BEVACIZUMAB; BIOMATERIAL; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN; DECORIN; DENDRIMER; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; GENISTEIN; LERDELIMUMAB; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE INHIBITOR; MITOMYCIN C; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PACLITAXEL; PENICILLAMINE; STEROID; SURAMIN; TRANILAST; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

AMNION; BLEEDING; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FIBRIN FORMATION; FIBROBLAST; FILTERING OPERATION; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; INTRAOCULAR HYPOTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUSTAINED DRUG RELEASE; TISSUE REGENERATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 53049091097     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)01117-5     Document Type: Review

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