Chronic implantation of newly developed suprachoroidal-transretinal stimulation prosthesis in dogs

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 6785-6792

  Morimoto, Takeshi ^a   Kamei, Motohiro ^a   Nishida, Kentaro ^a   Sakaguchi, Hirokazu ^a   Kanda, Hiroyuki ^a   Ikuno, Yasushi ^a   Kishima, Haruhiko ^a   Maruo, Tomoyuki ^a   Konoma, Kunihiko ^b   Ozawa, Motoki ^b   Nishida, Kohji ^a   Fujikado, Takashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIDEK CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ELECTRODE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE FUNDUS; HISTOLOGY; IMPLANTATION; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; SCLERA; SUPRACHOROIDAL TRANSRETINAL STIMULATION; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; ANIMAL; CHOROID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOMATERIAL;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CHOROID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 80055082254     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6971     Document Type: Article

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