Corneal wound healing after ultraviolet-A/riboflavin collagen cross-linking: A rabbit study

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 401-407

  Salomão, Marcella Q ^a   Chaurasia, Shyam S ^a,b   Sinha Roy, Abhijit ^a   Ambrósio Jr , Renato ^c   Esposito, Andrew ^a   Sepulveda, Ricardo ^a   Agrawal, Vandana ^a   Wilson, Steven E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^c Instituto de Olhos Renato Ambrosio   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CD11B ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; RIBOFLAVIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA STROMA; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; MONOCYTE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RABBIT; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD11B; APOPTOSIS; COLLAGEN; CORNEAL STROMA; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE INJURIES; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MONOCYTES; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; RABBITS; RIBOFLAVIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 79960162200     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: 19382391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20101201-02     Document Type: Article

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