The lens capsule

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-164

  Danysh, Brian P ^a   Duncan, Melinda K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

accommodation; basement membrane; lens capsule

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN DERIVATIVE; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; COLLAGEN XVIII; ENTACTIN; FIBRONECTIN; LAMININ; OSTEONECTIN; PERLECAN; PROTEOHEPARAN SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; DEVELOPMENT; DIFFUSION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE; HUMAN; LENS CAPSULE; LENS DISEASE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; ORGANOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 61849132989     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.08.002     Document Type: Review

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