Oxidative stress, lens gap junctions, and cataracts

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 339-353

  Berthoud, Viviana M ^a   Beyer, Eric C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 46; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GROWTH FACTOR; NITROGEN OXIDE; PROTEIN CONNEXIN 50; PROTEIN CONNEXIN 56; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN KINASE C GAMMA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; CATARACT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GAP JUNCTION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LENS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CATARACT; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 58149091691     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2008.2119     Document Type: Review

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