Electrical stimulation - A therapeutic strategy for retinal and optic nerve disease?

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 161-163

  Gekeler, Florian ^a   Bartz Schmidt, Karl Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; SOMATOMEDIN C; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

CELL SURVIVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA DISEASE; THERAPY EFFECT; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RETINAL DISEASES;

EID: 84857363958     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-012-1930-y     Document Type: Editorial

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