Mechanical behavior of scleral fibroblasts in experimental myopia

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 341-348

  Chen, Bo Yu ^a,b   Ma, Jing Xue ^a   Wang, Chao Ying ^b   Chen, Wei Yi ^c  

^a HEBEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BETHUNE INTERNATIONAL PEACE HOSPITAL   (China)

^c TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cultured cells; Micropipette aspiration; Myopia; Scleral fibroblasts

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GUINEA PIG; IN VITRO STUDY; LENS; MALE; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERA; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

DESMIN; KERATIN; PROTEIN S 100; VIMENTIN;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELLS, CULTURED; DESMIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GUINEA PIGS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; MALE; MYOPIA; S100 PROTEINS; SCLERA; VIMENTIN;

EID: 84861141785     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-011-1854-y     Document Type: Article

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