Cellular debris and ROS in age-related cortical cataract are caused by inappropriate involution of the surface epithelial cells into the lens cortex

Molecular Vision

Volumn 12, Issue , 2006, Pages 712-724

  Pendergrass, William R ^a   Penn, Phil E ^a   Possin, Daniel E ^b   Wolf, Norman S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; HOE 33342; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CELL DENSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURFACE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVOLUTION; LENS; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANK SUM TEST; RAT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CATARACT; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; LENS CORTEX, CRYSTALLINE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOCHONDRIA; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RHODAMINES;

EID: 33745290472     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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