Hydration and transparency of the rabbit cornea irradiated with UVB-doses of 0.25 J/cm2 and 0.5 J/cm2 compared with equivalent UVB radiation exposure reaching the human cornea from sunlight

Current Eye Research

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 607-613

  Čejka, Čestmír ^a   Ardan, Taras ^a   Širc, Jakub ^b   Michálek, Jiří ^b   Beneš, Jiří ^c   Brůnová, Blanka ^c   Rosina, Jozef ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Corneal hydration; Photokeratitis; transparency; UVB irradiation

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA OPACITY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BODY WATER; CORNEA; KERATITIS; RABBITS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 79958750991     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2011.574332     Document Type: Article

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