Ultraviolet absorption by contact lenses and the significance on the ocular anterior segment

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 259-266

  Chandler, Heather ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqueous humor; Contact lens; Cornea; Crystalline lens; Ultraviolet

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; FREE RADICAL; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; OXYGEN; OZONE; PSORALEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SILICONE; VITAMIN D;

ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; APOPTOSIS; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA INJURY; DNA DAMAGE; EYE IRRITATION; EYE PROTECTION; EYELID CANCER; HARD CONTACT LENS; HUMAN; KERATOPATHY; LENS; LENS DISEASE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PTERYGIUM; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION PROTECTION; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; REVIEW; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN PROTECTION; SPECTACLES; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNLIGHT PROTECTION; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CONTACT LENSES; EYE DISEASES; HUMANS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RADIATION PROTECTION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 79959968560     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: 1542233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICL.0b013e3182240945     Document Type: Review

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