Short-term effects of extremely low frequency pulsed electromagnetic field on corneas with alkaline burns in rabbits

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7881-7888

  Kanavi, Mozhgan Rezaei ^a   Sahebjam, Farzin ^a   Tabeie, Faraj ^a   Davari, Paniz ^a   Samadian, Aminpasha ^a   Yaseri, Mehdi ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA NEOVASCULARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EYE BURN; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; THERAPY EFFECT; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL BURN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; INJURY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ALKALI;

ALKALIES; ANIMALS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; CORNEA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EYE BURNS; FEMALE; RABBITS; RADIATION DOSAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84872201268     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10248     Document Type: Article

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