A computer model of lens structure and function predicts experimental changes to steady state properties and circulating currents

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Vaghefi, Ehsan ^a,b   Liu, Nancy ^a   Donaldson, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Computational modelling; Finite element; Microcirculation; Ocular lens; Physiological perturbations

Indexed keywords

DEPOLARIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROCIRCULATION; SODIUM;

3-D COMPUTER MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; MICROCIRCULATION SYSTEMS; OCULAR LENS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PERTURBATIONS; PREDICTIVE PROPERTIES; STEADY STATE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

PUMPS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CHLORIDE ION; POTASSIUM ION; POTASSIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DEPOLARIZATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FLUID FLOW; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; ION CURRENT; LENS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RAT; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; WISTAR FURTH RAT;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; POTASSIUM; RATS; RATS, INBRED WF; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE;

EID: 84884963513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-12-85     Document Type: Article

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