Aggregation of lens crystallins in an in vivo hyperbaric oxygen guinea pig model of nuclear cataracts: Dynamic light-scattering and HPLC analysis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4641-4651

  Simpanya, M Francis ^a   Ansari, Rafat R ^b   Suh, Kwang I ^b   Leverenz, Victor R ^a   Giblin, Frank J ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; CRYSTALLIN; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; ZETA CRYSTALLIN; OXYGEN; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DISULFIDE BOND; GUINEA PIG; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LENS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; LENS NUCLEUS; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATARACT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CRYSTALLINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GUINEA PIGS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; LENS NUCLEUS, CRYSTALLINE; LIGHT; MALE; OXYGEN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DENATURATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 33644813457     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0843     Document Type: Article

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