Effect of UV-B radiation on a hereditary suture cataract in mice

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 405-411

  Forker, Carina ^c   Wegener, Alfred ^b   Graw, Jochen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Crystallins; Experimental cataract; Inherited cataract; Mouse; Protein synthesis; Slit lamp microscopy; UV B radiation

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; LENS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ANIMAL; EPITHELIUM; GENETICS; LENS; LENS CAPSULE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CATARACT; CRYSTALLINS; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; LENS CORTEX, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0031090608     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1996.0225     Document Type: Article

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