Changes in optic nerve head blood flow, visual function, and retinal histology inhypercholesterolemic rabbits

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 818-824

  Shibata, Maho ^a   Sugiyama, Tetsuya ^a   Hoshiga, Masaaki ^a   Hotchi, Junko ^a   Okuno, Takashi ^a   Oku, Hidehiro ^a   Hanafusa, Toshiaki ^a   Ikeda, Tsunehiko ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Hypercholesterolemia; Laser speckle flowgraphy; Nitric oxide synthase; Optic nerve head blood flow; Rabbit; Visually evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE BLOOD FLOW; HISTOLOGY; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER; LASER SPECKLE FLOWGRAPHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL, DIETARY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EYE; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; OPTIC DISK; RABBITS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TIME FACTORS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84855946378     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2011.09.014     Document Type: Article

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