Reply to comment by Ronald A. Schachar on the publication "Stiffness gradient in the crystalline lens" by H.A. Weeber et al. [4]

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1407-1408

  Weeber, Henk A ^a   Eckert, G ^b   van der Heijde, G L ^c  

^a Applied Research   (Netherlands)

^b CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATARACT; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; DONOR; FREEZING; HARDNESS; HUMAN; LENS; LENS CAPSULE; LENS NUCLEUS; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SHEAR STRESS; SWINE; THAWING; THICKNESS; TORQUE; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 34548016105     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0627-0     Document Type: Letter

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