Effects of xylose on monkey lenses in organ culture: A model for study of sugar cataracts in a primate

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-71

  Jernigan Jr , Howard M ^a   Zigler Jr , J Samuel ^b   Liu, Ying ^a   Blum, Penny S ^a   Merola, Lorenzo O ^b   Stimbert, Cynthia D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Choline transport; Diabetes; Galactose; Human lens; Macaca mulatta; Organ culture; Phosphocholine synthesis; Phosphorylcholine; Rhesus monkey lens; Sugar cataract; Xylose

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 2 METHYLPROPIONIC ACID; ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; CHOLINE; GALACTITOL; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; IDITOL DEHYDROGENASE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; SORBITOL; SUGAR; XYLITOL; XYLOSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CELL SWELLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LENS EPITHELIUM; LENS FIBER; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; RHESUS MONKEY;

EID: 0032128136     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1998.0493     Document Type: Article

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