GABA agonists fail to protect the retina from ischemia-reperfusion injury

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 361-366

  Traustason, Sindri ^a   Eysteinsson, Thor ^a   Agnarsson, Bjarni A ^a   Stefánsson, Einar ^a  

^a LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

Author keywords

gamma aminobutyric acid; hypothermia; ischemia; reperfusion; retina

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; MIDAZOLAM; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRIGHT FIELD MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOTHERAPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; ISCHEMIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY; RETINA;

ANIMALS; BACLOFEN; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GABA AGONISTS; GABA MODULATORS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; ISCHEMIC PRECONDITIONING; MIDAZOLAM; MUSCIMOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPERFUSION INJURY; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 61549086237     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.07.019     Document Type: Article

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