Comment on the publication "Stiffness gradient in the crystalline lens" by H.A. Weeber et al. [3]

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1405-1406

  Schachar, Ronald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENS PROTEIN;

CATARACT; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR; FREEZING; HARDNESS; HUMAN; LENS; LENS CAPSULE; LENS NUCLEUS; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RIGIDITY; SHEAR STRESS; THICKNESS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TORQUE; VISCOELASTICITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; AGING; CATARACT; COMPLIANCE; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE;

EID: 34548036722     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0628-z     Document Type: Letter

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