Effects of cataractogenesis on the CDP-choline pathway: Changes in ATP concentration and phosphocholine synthesis during and after exposure of rat lenses to sugars in vitro and in vivo

Ophthalmic Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 185-191

  Liu, Ying ^a   Blum, Penny S ^a   Pabst, Diana M ^a   Chakrabarti, Ipsit ^a   Jernigan Jr , Howard M ^a  

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

Author keywords

ATP concentration; Choline transport; Diabetes; Galactose; Galactosemia; Organ culture; Phosphorylcholine; Rat lens; Sugar cataract; Xylose

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CHOLINE KINASE; GALACTOSE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; SUGAR; XYLOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACTOGENESIS; CELL ASSAY; CHOLINE UPTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; LENS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CATARACT; CHOLINE; CHOLINE KINASE; CYTIDINE DIPHOSPHATE CHOLINE; GALACTOSE; GALACTOSEMIAS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XYLOSE;

EID: 0038647272     PISSN: 00303747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071169     Document Type: Article

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