Aggregation in aqueous solutions of bovine lens γ-crystallins: Special role of ys

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1609-1619

  Lin, Canwen ^a   Pande, Jayanti ^a   Lomakin, Aleksey ^b   Ogun, Olutayo ^b   Benedek, George B ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; THIOL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDRODYNAMICS; LENS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CRYSTALLINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIGHT; POLYMERS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 0031858840     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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