Basal blood flow and autoregulation changes in the optic nerve of rhesus monkeys with idiopathic bilateral optic atrophy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 714-721

  Piper, Chelsea ^a   Fortune, Brad ^a   Cull, Grant ^a   Cioffi, George A ^a   Wang, Lin ^a  

^a DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC ATROPHY; OPTIC DISK; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84874734744     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-9773     Document Type: Article

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