Pseudoexfoliation syndrome and trace elements

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1100, Issue , 2007, Pages 207-212

  Yildirim, Zuhal ^a   Uçgun, N Irem ^b   Kiliç, Nedret ^a   Gursel E ^b   Sepici Dinçel, Aylin ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cataract; Copper; Lens; Pseudoexfoliation syndrome; Zinc

Indexed keywords

COPPER; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

ADULT; AGED; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOMOGENIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROLYSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENS; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION SYNDROME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT; COPPER; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SEX FACTORS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; ZINC;

EID: 34249652259     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1395.020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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