Qualitative effect of zonular tension on freshly extracted intact human crystalline lenses: Implications for the mechanism of accommodation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2691-2695

  Schachar, Ronald A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b Box 601149 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CILIARY BODY; FORCEPS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSTRUMENT; LENS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TENSION; THEORY; TOPOGRAPHY; ZONULAR TENSION; ZONULAR TRACTION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADOLESCENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIGAMENTS; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 3242891950     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-1267     Document Type: Article

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