Singlet oxygen production correlates with His and Trp destruction in brunescent cataract water-insoluble proteins [2]

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 377-380

  Ortwerth, B J ^a   Casserly, T A ^a   Olesen, P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE; LENS PROTEIN; SINGLET OXYGEN; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

EID: 0031758965     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1998.0550     Document Type: Article

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