Corneal nerve morphology and sensitivity changes after ultraviolet A/riboflavin treatment

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 541-547

  Xia, Yu ^a   Chai, Xinyu ^a   Zhou, Chuanqing ^a   Ren, Qiushi ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Corneal nerves; Corneal sensitivity; Crosslinking; Riboflavin; Ultraviolet irradiation

Indexed keywords

FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; RIBOFLAVIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA DEEPITHELIALIZATION; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA NERVE; CORNEA SENSIBILITY; CORNEA STROMA; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE; NERVE PLEXUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE PREPARATION; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; CORNEA; CORNEAL STROMA; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE REGENERATION; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; RABBITS; RIBOFLAVIN; SENSATION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE DISEASES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 80055052392     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2011.06.021     Document Type: Article

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