Point/counterpoint: A critical appraisal of the lens fluid circulation model: Point: A critical appraisal of the lens circulation model-an experimental paradigm for understanding the maintenance of lens transparency?

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2303-2306

  Donaldson, Paul J ^a   Musil, Linda S ^b   Mathias, Richard T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CRYSTALLIN; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE DISULFIDE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HEXOKINASE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; SODIUM GLUCOSE COTRANSPORTER 2; SODIUM ION;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; EYE REFRACTION; FLUID FLOW; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; ION CURRENT; LENS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; SODIUM CURRENT; SODIUM TRANSPORT; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY FLUID; CATARACT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; BODY FLUIDS; CATARACT; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77952484773     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5350     Document Type: Article

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