UV filters in the lens of the thirteen lined ground squirrel (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus)

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 730-737

  Hains, P G ^a   Simpanya, M F ^b   Giblin, F ^b   Truscott, R J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Cataract; GSH; HPLC; Kynurenine; Lens; Mass spectrometry; UV light; Vision

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYKYNURENINE GLUCOSIDE; ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; GLUCOSIDE; GLUTATHIONE; KYNURENINE; LENS PROTEIN; N ACETYL 3 HYDROXYKYNURENINE; N ACETYL KYNURENINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAMINATION; FILTER; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LENS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SQUIRREL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CRYSTALLINS; GLUTATHIONE; KYNURENINE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SCIURIDAE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 31044438234     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2005.09.014     Document Type: Article

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