Effect of unoprostone on topographic and blood flow changes in the ischemic optic nerve head of rabbits

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 454-459

  Sugiyama, Tetsuya ^a   Mashima, Yukihiko ^a   Yoshioka, Yuriko ^b   Oku, Hidehiro ^a   Ikeda, Tsunehiko ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1; UNOPROSTONE ISOPROPYL ESTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; EYE BLOOD FLOW; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC DISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CELL COUNT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DINOPROST; ENDOTHELIN-1; INJECTIONS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LASERS; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NEUROPATHY, ISCHEMIC; RABBITS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL VESSELS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 65249146643     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2008.606     Document Type: Article

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