Effects of a myosin light chain kinase inhibitor on the optics and accommodation of the avian crystalline lens

Molecular Vision

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 2759-2764

  Luck, Sara ^a   Choh, Vivian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 (5 IODO 1 NAPHTHALENESULFONYL)HEXAHYDRO 1H 1,4 DIAZEPINE; ACTIN; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; MYOSIN;

ACCOMMODATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CILIARY MUSCLE; CILIARY NERVE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE EXAMINATION; LENS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; AZEPINES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHICKENS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITORS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIGHT; MYOSIN-LIGHT-CHAIN KINASE; NAPHTHALENES; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 83055174017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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