Age-related impairment in choroidal blood flow compensation for arterial blood pressure fluctuation in pigeons

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 7238-7247

  Reiner, Anton ^a   Del Mar, Nobel ^a   Zagvazdin, Yuri ^a,b   Li, Chunyan ^a,c   Fitzgerald, Malinda E C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE FLUCTUATION; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; CHOROIDAL BLOOD FLOW; EYE BLOOD FLOW; GERIATRIC DISORDER; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; AGING; ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOROID; HOMEOSTASIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGEONS AND DOVES; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; VASCULARIZATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOROID; COLUMBIDAE; HOMEOSTASIS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; PRESSORECEPTORS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 80655148191     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6464     Document Type: Article

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