A novel method for the induction of experimental glaucoma using magnetic microspheres

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1671-1675

  Samsel, Paulina A ^a   Kisiswa, Lilian ^a   Erichsen, Jonathan T ^a   Cross, Stephen D ^a   Morgan, James E ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE; POLYSTYRENE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS HUMOR FLOW; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; GLAUCOMA; INFLAMMATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIDOCORNEAL ANGLE; IRIS; MAGNET; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAGNETICS; MALE; MICROSPHERES; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 79955934362     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3921     Document Type: Article

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