Susceptibility to TGFβ2-induced cataract increases with aging in the rat

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3544-3551

  Hales, A M ^a   Chamberlain, C G ^a   McAvoy, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; ACTIN; COLLAGEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CATARACTOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXPLANT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LENS EPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; LENS; MALE; METABOLISM; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PATHOLOGY; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ACTINS; AGING; ANIMALS; CATARACT; COLLAGEN; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0033623352     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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