Quantification of chick lens αA- and δ-crystallins in experimentally induced ametropia

Molecular Vision

Volumn 8, Issue , 2002, Pages 472-476

  Zaidi, Sophia ^a   Senchyna, Michelle ^a   Sivak, Jacob G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; DELTA CRYSTALLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HATCHING; HYPERMETROPIA; LENS DISEASE; MORPHOLOGY; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINOSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN A CHAIN; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHICKENS; DELTA-CRYSTALLINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HYPEROPIA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0036976420     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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