The impact of type 1 diabetes mellitus on corneal epithelial nerve morphology and the corneal epithelium

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 184, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2662-2670

  Cai, Daniel ^a   Zhu, Meifang ^a   Petroll, W Matthew ^a   Koppaka, Vindhya ^a   Robertson, Danielle M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; DENSITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPITHELIUM BASAL CELL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROWTH RETARDATION; HOMEOSTASIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE; NERVE PLEXUS; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOZOTOCIN-INDUCED DIABETES MELLITUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; C57BL MOUSE; CELL COUNT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISEASE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; INNERVATION; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; STREPTOZOCIN;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE FIBERS; STREPTOZOCIN;

EID: 84922470446     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: 15252191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2014.06.016     Document Type: Article

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