Patterns of crystallin distribution in porcine eye lenses

Molecular Vision

Volumn 14, Issue , 2008, Pages 1245-1253

  Keenan, J ^a   Orr, D F ^a   Pierscionek, B K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; CRYSTALLIN; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROPHILICITY; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; LENS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REFRACTION INDEX; SWINE;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN A CHAIN; ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; ANIMALS; BETA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CRYSTALLINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EYE PROTEINS; GAMMA-CRYSTALLINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SOLUBILITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUS SCROFA; WATER;

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