Role of the lens capsule on the mechanical accommodative response in a lens stretcher

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4490-4496

  Ziebarth, Noël M ^a,b   Borja, David ^a,b   Arrieta, Esdras ^a   Aly, Mohamed ^a   Manns, Fabrice ^a,b   Dortonne, Isabelle ^a   Nankivil, Derek ^a,b   Jain, Rakhi ^c   Parel, Jean Marie ^a,b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

^c Advanced Medical Optics Inc   (United States)

^d VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CAPSULORHEXIS; CHILD; CILIARY BODY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; EX VIVO STUDY; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LENS; LENS CAPSULE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRESBYOPIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLERA; STRETCHING; AGING; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELASTIC TISSUE; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANIMALS; CAPSULORHEXIS; CHILD; ELASTIC TISSUE; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESBYOPIA; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 53449093685     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1647     Document Type: Article

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