Oxidative stress on Lens and cataract formation: Role of light and oxygen

Current Eye Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1984, Pages 35-58

  Varma, Shambhu D ^a   Chand, Diwan ^a   Sharma, Yog R ^a   Kuck, John F ^b   Richards, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CATARACTOGENESIS; ETIOLOGY; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; RAT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CATARACT; DOGS; FREE RADICALS; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIGHT; MICE; OXYGEN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RABBITS; RATS; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0021333720     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713688408997186     Document Type: Article

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