Mechanisms involved in cataract development following near-ultraviolet radiation of cultured lenses

Current Eye Research

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1992, Pages 679-689

  Hightower, Kenneth ^a   McCready, Janet ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CALCIUM; GLUTATHIONE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; OXYGEN; SODIUM; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACTOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LENS; LENS EPITHELIUM; LENS FIBER; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; RADIATION CATARACT; TISSUE CULTURE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMAL; CALCIUM; CATARACT; EPITHELIUM; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; NA(+)-K(+)-EXCHANGING ATPASE; ORGAN CULTURE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RABBITS; SODIUM; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0026624904     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713689209000741     Document Type: Article

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