Oxidative injury to blood vessels and glia of the pre-laminar optic nerve head in human glaucoma

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 409-414

  Feilchenfeld, Zac ^a   Yücel, Yeni H ^a,b,c   Gupta, Neeru ^a,b,c  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

astrocyte; blood vessel; endothelium; glaucoma; glial cell; human; optic nerve; oxidative damage; peroxynitrite; smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; CD34 ANTIGEN; CELL MARKER; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PEROXYNITRITE; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TISSUE SECTION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ACTINS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, CD34; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD VESSELS; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGLIA; OPTIC DISK; OXIDATIVE STRESS; TYROSINE;

EID: 57149098020     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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