Imaging and Quantification of Subbasal Nerve Plexus in Healthy Volunteers and Diabetic Patients with or without Retinopathy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zhivov, Andrey ^a   Winter, Karsten ^b   Hovakimyan, Marine ^a   Peschel, Sabine ^a   Harder, Volker ^c   Schober, Hans Christof ^c   Kundt, Guenther ^a   Baltrusch, Simone ^a   Guthoff, Rudolf F ^a   Stachs, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c Südstadt Clinic   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PLEXUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUBBASAL NERVE PLEXUS;

AGED; CORNEA; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNDUS OCULI; HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

EID: 84872399710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052157     Document Type: Article

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