Glutathione isopropyl ester (YM737) inhibits the progression of x-ray-induced cataract in rats

Current Eye Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 115-122

  Kobayashi, Shizuko ^a   Kasuya, Minako ^a,b   Shimizu, Keiko ^b   Ishii, Yasuo ^b   Takehana, Makoto ^a   Sakai, Kazuo ^c   Suzuki, Norio ^c   Itoi, Motokazu ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Eye Res Inst of Cataract Found   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE ISOPROPYL ESTER; LENS PROTEIN; MALONALDEHYDE; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM ION; THIOL GROUP;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG METABOLISM; FEMALE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LENS; NONHUMAN; RADIATION CATARACT; RAT;

ANIMAL; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CATARACT; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; POTASSIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; X-RAYS;

EID: 0027400952     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713689308999479     Document Type: Article

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