Advances in imaging the blood and aqueous vessels of the ocular limbus

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 118-126

  van der Merwe, E L ^a   Kidson, S H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Animal; Aqueous vessels; Human; Imaging; Limbal vasculature vessels; Microscopy; Schlemm's canal

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

CORNEA LIMBUS; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GONIOSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; OCULAR BLOOD VESSEL; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SLIT LAMP; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; HUMANS; LIMBUS CORNEAE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC;

EID: 77954957200     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2010.04.016     Document Type: Review

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