Impact of UVR-A on whole human lenses, supernatants of buffered human lens homogenates, and purified argpyrimidine and 3-OH-kynurenine

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 221-227

  Kessel, Line ^a   Kalinin, Stanislav ^b   Soroka, Vladislav ^c   Larsen, Michael ^a   Johansson, Lennart B Å ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cataract; Fluorescence; Lens; Ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYKYNURENINE; FLUORESCENT DYE; LENS PROTEIN; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; SCAVENGER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CATARACTOGENESIS; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE PROTECTION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SUPERNATANT; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

AGED; ANIMALS; BUFFERS; CRYSTALLINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMANS; KYNURENINE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MIDDLE AGED; ORNITHINE; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PYRIMIDINES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 17744398249     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2005.00388.x     Document Type: Article

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