Tryptophan metabolites from young human lenses and the photooxidation of ascorbic acid by UVA light

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3311-3319

  Ortwerth, Beryl J ^a   Bhattacharyya, Jaya ^a   Shipova, Ekaterina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; OXYGEN; TRYPTOPHAN; 3 HYDROXYKYNURENINE GLUCOSIDE; 3-HYDROXYKYNURENINE GLUCOSIDE; 4 (2 AMINO 3 HYDROXYPHENYL) 4 OXOBUTANOIC ACID O GLUCOSIDE; 4-(2-AMINO-3-HYDROXYPHENYL)-4-OXOBUTANOIC ACID O-GLUCOSIDE; ARYLBUTYRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CRYSTALLIN; GLUCOSIDE; GLUTATHIONE; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OXIDATION KINETICS; PHOTOOXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; CELL FRACTIONATION; DRUG EFFECT; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASCORBIC ACID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CRYSTALLINS; GLUCOSIDES; GLUTATHIONE; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENYLBUTYRATES; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRYPTOPHAN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 67649970874     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2927     Document Type: Article

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