Breakdown of the Inner and Outer Blood Retinal Barrier in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetes

• Author(s): Carmo, Anália do ; Ramos, Pedro ; Reis, Aldina ; Proença, Rui ; Cunha-Vaz, J. G.
• Date: 1998
• Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/4854
• Origin: Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra
• Subject(s): blood-retinal barrier; diabetes; quantitative confocal microscopy; fluorophotometry.
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English

Description

Using vitreous fluorophotometry and quantitative fluorescence microscopy the authors studied the permeability of the blood-retinal barrier (BRB) to fluorescein in control and in 8 days streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats.

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