Myopia: A collagen disease?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 485-487

  Yang, Yin ^a   Li, Xiaohong ^a   Yan, Naihong ^a   Cai, Suping ^a   Liu, Xuyang ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1 ALPHA 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; COLLAGEN TYPE 2 ALPHA 1; GELATINASE A; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; COLLAGEN DEGRADATION; COLLAGEN DISEASE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERA; STICKLER SYNDROME;

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN DISEASES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOPIA; SCLERA; SCLERAL DISEASES;

EID: 69249220040     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.06.020     Document Type: Article

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