The mechanism of accommodation and presbyopia

International Ophthalmology Clinics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 39-61

  Schachar, Ronald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; PROTEIN; WATER;

ACCOMMODATION; AGING; CILIARY MOTILITY; CILIARY MUSCLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; ELASTIC FIBER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EYE DISEASE; GROWTH; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LENS; LENS CAPSULE; LENS DISEASE; LENS FIBER; LENS POWER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSCILLATION; PRESBYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCLERA; SCLEROSIS;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; CILIARY BODY; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; PRESBYOPIA;

EID: 33748285626     PISSN: 00208167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004397-200604630-00006     Document Type: Review

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