The lens of the eye as a focusing device and its response to stress

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 189-206

  Banh, Alice ^a   Bantseev, Vladimir ^a   Choh, Vivian ^b   Moran, Kelley L ^a   Sivak, Jacob G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ACCOMMODATION; AGING; CELL STRUCTURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE; HUMAN; LASER; LENS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; STRESS;

ANIMALS; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 32444444838     PISSN: 13509462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2005.10.001     Document Type: Review

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