Early corneal wound healing and inflammatory responses after refractive lenticule extraction (ReLEX)

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 6213-6221

  Riau, Andri K ^a   Angunawela, Romesh I ^a,b   Chaurasia, Shyam S ^a   Lee, Wing S ^a   Tan, Donald T ^a,b,c   Mehta, Jodhbir S ^a,b,c,d  

^a SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD11B ANTIGEN; FIBRONECTIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA SURGERY; FEMTOSECOND LASER; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REFRACTIVE LENTICULE EXTRACTION; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; SLIT LAMP; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD11B; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORNEA; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL SURGERY, LASER; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FIBRONECTINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; KERATITIS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; LASERS, EXCIMER; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RABBITS; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 80051501950     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-7439     Document Type: Article

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