Role of NO in the control of choroidal blood flow during a decrease in ocular perfusion pressure

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 372-377

  Simader, Christian ^a   Lung, Solveig ^a   Weigert, Günther ^a   Kolodjaschna, Julia ^a   Fuchsjäger Mayrl, Gabriele ^a   Schmetterer, Leopold ^a,b   Polska, Elzbieta ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CLINALFA; N(G) METHYLARGININE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHENYLEPHRINE; PLACEBO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITOR; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOS2A PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUCTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOROID; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OMEGA-N-METHYLARGININE; PHENYLEPHRINE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 58249092155     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1614     Document Type: Article

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