Light absorption properties of the rabbit cornea repeatedly irradiated with UVB rays

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 652-657

  Čejka, Čestmír ^a,b   Pláteník, Jan ^b   Guryca, Vilém ^c   Širc, Jakub ^c   Michálek, Jiří ^c   Brůnová, Blanka ^b   Čejková, Jitka ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CORNEA; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; KERATITIS; PATHOLOGY; RABBIT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STROMA CELL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CORNEA; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; KERATITIS; RABBITS; STROMAL CELLS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 34249810912     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2007.00061.x     Document Type: Article

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