A brighter future for cataract surgery

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 958-960

  Ibaraki, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; HUMAN; LENS CAPSULE; LENS EPITHELIUM; LENS IMPLANT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOVEMENT; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THAPSIGARGIN;

EID: 0030820398     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0997-958     Document Type: Short Survey

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