Structural evidence of human nuclear fiber compaction as a function of ageing and cataractogenesis

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 199-214

  Al Ghoul, Kristin J ^a   Nordgren, Rachel K ^a   Kuszak, Adam J ^a   Freel, Christopher D ^b   Costello, M Joseph ^b   Kuszak, Jer R ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Crystalline lens; Morphology; Nuclear cataracts; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CATARACTOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LENS FIBER; MORPHOLOGY; PRESBYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THICKNESS;

EID: 0034770810     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.2000.0937     Document Type: Article

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