Low levels of plasma endothelin-1 in patients with retinitis pigmentosa

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 569-573

  Ohguro, Hiroshi ^a   Mashima, Yukihiko ^b   Nakazawa, Mitsuru ^c  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endothelin 1; Retinal hemodynamics; Retinitis pigmentosa

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

EID: 77956126561     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2147/opth.s9152     Document Type: Article

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