Water soluble antioxidants in mammalian aqueous humor: Interaction with UV B and hydrogen peroxide

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 2881-2888

  Richer, Stuart P ^a   Rose, R C ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b FUHS The Chicago Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Aqueous humor; Hydrogen peroxide; Ultraviolet B radiation

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CYSTEINE; FREE RADICAL; GLUTATHIONE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; OXIDIZING AGENT; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; THIOL; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; URIC ACID; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAMMAL; MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; SOLUBILITY; SUNLIGHT; THERMODYNAMICS; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ASCORBIC ACID; CATARACT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYSTEINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MAMMALS; OXIDANTS; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; URIC ACID;

EID: 0031690541     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00069-8     Document Type: Article

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