Age-related changes in bovine α-crystallin and high-molecular-weight protein

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 639-647

  Carver, John A ^a   Nicholls, Kerrie A ^b   Aquilina, J Andrew ^b   Truscott, Roger J W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chaperone; High molecular weight protein; Mass spectrometry; NMR spectroscopy; Crystallin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LENS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030452980     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1996.0158     Document Type: Article

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