Delay of cataract development in the Shumiya cataract rat by water containing enhanced concentrations of magnesium and calcium

Current Eye Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 439-445

  Nagai, Noriaki ^a   Ito, Yoshimasa ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium; Deep sea drinking water; Magnesium; Nitric oxide; Shumiya cataract rat

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; MAGNESIUM ION; NITRIC OXIDE; SEA WATER; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGING; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CATARACT; DRINKING; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MAGNESIUM; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34249039893     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02713680701329339     Document Type: Article

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