Cataract formation in a strain of rats selected for high oxidative stress

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 595-612

  Marsili, Stefania ^a   Salganik, Rudolf I ^b,c   Albright, Craig D ^b   Freel, Christopher D ^a   Johnsen, Sonke ^d   Peiffer, Robert L ^e   Joseph Costello, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

cataract; electron microscopy; Fourier analysis; immunohistochemistry; lens fiber cell; light microscopy; oxidative stress; rat model

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; BRAIN CORTEX; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE COURSE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EPITHELIUM; FETUS; FETUS CELL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SLIT LAMP; THEORETICAL STUDY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AGING; ANIMALS; CATARACT; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GALACTOSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, ANIMAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 4544373059     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2004.06.008     Document Type: Article

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