Endothelial nitric oxide synthase polymorphism (G894T) and nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 183-185

  Giannopoulos, Sotirios ^a   Markoula, Sofia ^a   Asproudis, Ioannis ^a   Galidi, Anna ^b   Nikas, Alexios ^a   Kyritsis, Athanassios P ^a   Georgiou, Ioannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Genes; Nitric oxide; Nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy; Polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NONARTERITIC ANTERIOR ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DNA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; OPTIC NEUROPATHY, ISCHEMIC; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79451471016     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523810000350     Document Type: Article

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