Glycero- versus sphingo-phospholipids: Correlations with human and non-human mammalian lens growth

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 725-734

  Yappert, M Cecilia ^a   Rujoi, Madalina ^a   Borchman, Douglas ^b   Vorobyov, Igor ^a   Estrada, Rosendo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Age dependence; Dihydrosphingomyelin; Fiber membranes; Glycerolipids; Human lens; Lens growth; Mammalian lens; Phospholipids; Sphingolipids

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROSPHINGOMYELIN; GLYCEROPHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHATIDYLGLYCEROL; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PLASMALOGEN ETHANOLAMINE; SPHINGOLIPID; SPHINGOMYELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COW; ELEPHANT; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENS; LENS EPITHELIUM; LENS FIBER; LIPID ANALYSIS; MAMMAL; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORUS NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE;

EID: 0038667898     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4835(03)00051-4     Document Type: Article

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