Dietary sugar and salt represent real risk factors for cataract development

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 217, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 302-307

  Veromann, Siiri ^a,b   Sunter A ^a   Tasa, G ^a   Juronen, E ^a   Panov, A ^b   Pastak, M ^b   Kaljurand, K ^b  

^a Inst of General and Molec Pathol   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Cataract risk; Lens histopathology; Porcine model; Protein leakage; Salt, dietary; Sugar, dietary

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE; SUGAR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CATARACT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; EYE DISEASE; FOOD INTAKE; HISTOLOGY; LENS FIBER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SALT INTAKE; SUGAR INTAKE; SWINE;

ANIMALS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CATARACT; CRYSTALLINS; DIETARY SUCROSE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; RISK FACTORS; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY; SWINE;

EID: 0038278761     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070640     Document Type: Article

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