Differential effects of trabecular meshwork stiffness on outflow facility in normal human and porcine eyes

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5242-5250

  Camras, Lucinda J ^a   Stamer, W Daniel ^b   Epstein, David ^b   Gonzalez, Pedro ^b   Yuan, Fan ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; YOUNG MODULUS; ANIMAL; AQUEOUS HUMOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENUCLEATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; SECRETION (PROCESS); STATISTICAL MODEL; SWINE; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; ANIMALS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERFUSION; SWINE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE;

EID: 84867845112     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-9825     Document Type: Article

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