A mouse model of ocular blast injury that induces closed globe anterior and posterior pole damage

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-70

  Hines Beard, Jessica ^a   Marchetta, Jeffrey ^b   Gordon, Sarah ^b   Chaum, Edward ^a   Geisert, Eldon E ^a   Rex, Tonia S ^a  

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

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Blast; Cell death; Eye; Injury; Model; Mouse; Traumatic; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ABRASION; CORNEA EDEMA; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE INJURY; FEMALE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA INJURY; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; BLAST INJURIES; BODY WEIGHT; CATARACT; CORNEAL DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE INJURIES; FEMALE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; POSTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 84861653124     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2012.03.013     Document Type: Article

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