Structural changes of the trabecular meshwork in different kinds of glaucoma

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 769-775

  Tektas, Ozan Yüksel ^a   Lütjen Drecoll, Elke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

pigmentary glaucoma; primary open angle glaucoma; steroid induced glaucoma; subendothelial region of Schlemm's canal; trabecular meshwork

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 4; CORTICOSTEROID;

ACCOMMODATION; AGING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LOSS; CELL STRUCTURE; CILIARY MUSCLE; ELASTIC FIBER; ENDOTHELIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PIGMENT GLAUCOMA; PRESBYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHLEMM CANAL; SIDE EFFECT; STEROID INDUCED GLAUCOMA; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

AGING; CILIARY BODY; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 64249161403     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.11.025     Document Type: Review

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