The structure of the cytoplasm of lens fibers as determined by conical tomography

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 566-574

  Schietroma, C ^a   Fain, N ^a   Zampighi, L M ^a   Lanzavecchia, S ^b   Zampighi, G A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

"beaded" filaments; crystallins; cytoskeleton; density segmentation; electron tomography; intermediate filaments

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IONIC STRENGTH; LENS FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CRYSTALLINS; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; RATS; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 61549084660     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.11.029     Document Type: Article

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