Biological and biomechanical responses to traditional epithelium-off and transepithelial ribofl avin-UVA CXL techniques in rabbits

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 332-341

  Armstrong, Brian K ^a   Lin, Michelle P ^a   Ford, Matthew R ^a   Santhiago, Marcony R ^a   Singh, Vivek ^a   Grossman, Gregory H ^a   Agrawal, Vandana ^a   Roy, Abhijit Sinha ^a   Butler, Robert S ^a   Dupps, William J ^a   Wilson, Steven E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZALKONIUM; EDETIC ACID; RIBOFLAVIN; TETRACAINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL ASSAY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA OPACITY; CORNEA THICKNESS; CROSS LINKING; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; RIGIDITY; RIGIDITY ANALYZER; STROMA CELL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BENZALKONIUM COMPOUNDS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL DEATH; CORNEA; CORNEAL STROMA; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LASERS, EXCIMER; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; RABBITS; RIBOFLAVIN; TETRACAINE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84877938170     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: 19382391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20130415-04     Document Type: Article

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