High prevalence of cataracts in birds with pheomelanin-based colouration

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 259-264

  Galván, Ismael ^a   Erritzøe, Johannes ^b   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^c   Møller, Anders P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b Taps Old Rectory   (Denmark)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cataract; Glutathione; Oxidative stress; Pheomelanin

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; PHEOMELANIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CATARACT; FEATHER; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860495684     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2012.03.012     Document Type: Article

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