Confocal microscopy of human lens membranes in aged normal and nuclear cataracts

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 2826-2832

  Boyle, Daniel L ^a   Takemoto, Larry J ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DiI; Human nuclear cataract; Laser scanning confocal microscopy; Lipid membranes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LENS; LIPID MEMBRANE; LIPOPHILICITY; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARBOCYANINES; CATARACT; CELL MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HUMANS; LENS NUCLEUS, CRYSTALLINE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031459385     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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