Maximum tolerable dose for avoidance of cataract after repeated exposure to ultraviolet radiation in rats

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 200-208

  Dong, Xiuqin ^a   Löfgren, Stefan ^a   Ayala, Marcelo ^b   Söderberg, Per G ^a  

^a ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cataract; dose response function; light scattering; maximum tolerable dose (MTD); rat; ultraviolet radiation (UVR)

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DOSE RESPONSE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RAT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CATARACT; CORNEAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 33751204994     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2006.09.017     Document Type: Article

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