Structural and functional abnormalities of retinal ganglion cells measured in vivo at the onset of optic nerve head surface change in experimental glaucoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3939-3950

  Fortune, Brad ^a   Burgoyne, Claude F ^a   Cull, Grant A ^a   Reynaud, Juan ^a   Wang, Lin ^a  

^a DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RHESUS MONKEY; ANIMAL; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; MACACA MULATTA; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

ANIMALS; BIREFRINGENCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER COAGULATION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 84866745318     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-9979     Document Type: Article

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