Experimental scleral cross-linking increases glaucoma damage in a mouse model

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 128, Issue , 2014, Pages 129-140

  Kimball, Elizabeth C ^a   Nguyen, Cathy ^a   Steinhart, Matthew R ^a   Nguyen, Thao D ^b   Pease, Mary E ^a   Oglesby, Ericka N ^a   Oveson, Brian C ^a   Quigley, Harry A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Collagen; Cross linking; Extracellular matrix; Glaucoma; Glyceraldehyde; Mouse; Retinal ganglion cell; Sclera

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED GLYCATION END PRODUCT; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; EYE PROTEIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL LOSS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL GLAUCOMA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INDENTATION TONOMETER; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERMEABILITY; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINAL STRUCTURE; SCLERA; SCLERAL CROSS LINKING; SCLERAL PERMEABILITY; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; ELASTICITY; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELASTICITY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLYCERALDEHYDE; GLYCOSYLATION END PRODUCTS, ADVANCED; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MICE; PERMEABILITY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SCLERA; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 84907984855     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2014.08.016     Document Type: Article

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