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Animal Model of Non-arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy

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To have an animal model simulating a human disease is helpful, sometimes critical, in obtaining information about the pathogenesis, management and other aspects of a disease, since it is not always either possible or ethical to explore many aspects of a disease in the human.

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Hayreh, S.S. (2011). Animal Model of Non-arteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy. In: Ischemic Optic Neuropathies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11852-4_18

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