Establishment of an experimental ferret ocular hypertension model for the analysis of central visual pathway damage

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Fujishiro, Takashi ^a   Kawasaki, Hiroshi ^b   Aihara, Makoto ^c   Saeki, Tadashiro ^d   Ymagishi, Reiko ^e   Atarashi, Takuya ^e   Mayama, Chihiro ^e   Araie, Makoto ^f  

^a SAITAMA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Shirato Eye Clinic   (Japan)

^d Koritsu Showa Hospital   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f Kanto Chuo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BINOCULAR VISION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE MODEL; FERRET; GENICULATE BODY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL SYSTEM; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FERRETS; GENICULATE BODIES; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 84945147081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06501     Document Type: Article

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