Biomechanical changes in the sclera of monkey eyes exposed to chronic IOP elevations

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 5656-5669

  Girard, Michaël J A ^a,b,c   Francis Suh, J K ^b,d   Bottlang, Michael ^e   Burgoyne, Claude F ^a,b   Crawford Downs, J ^a,b  

^a DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^e LEGACY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GLAUCOMA; HAPLORHINI; INTERFEROMETRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERA; ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); DISEASE MODEL; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MACACA MULATTA; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BIOMECHANICS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLIANCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SCLERA; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 80053331516     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6927     Document Type: Article

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