Magnetic resonance and confocal imaging of solute penetration into the lens reveals a zone of restricted extracellular space diffusion

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 302, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Vaghefi, Ehsan ^a,b   Walker, Kerry ^a   Pontre, Beau P ^a   Jacobs, Marc D ^b   Donaldson, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Homeostasis; Magnetic resonance imaging; Ocular lens; Solute fluxes

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DIFFUSION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; LENS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN CULTURE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUTE; SOLUTE PENETRATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CATTLE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIFFUSION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HOMEOSTASIS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 84861871637     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00611.2011     Document Type: Article

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