Evaluation of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and axonal transport 1 and 2 weeks after 8 hours of acute intraocular pressure elevation in rats

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 674-687

  Abbott, Carla J ^a   Choe, Tiffany E ^a   Lusardi, Theresa A ^b   Burgoyne, Claude F ^a   Wang, Lin ^a   Fortune, Brad ^a  

^a DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LEGACY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal transport; Confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope; Glaucoma; Optical coherence tomography; Retinal ganglion cell; Retinal nerve fiber layer

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; NEOMYCIN; POLYMYXIN B;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

AXONAL TRANSPORT; CONFOCAL SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; GLAUCOMA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINAL GANGLION CELL; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; CELL COUNT; FLUORESCENT DYES; FLUOROBENZENES; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MICROGLIA; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL NEURONS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 84893244825     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-12811     Document Type: Article

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