Elemental analysis of sunflower cataract in Wilson's disease: A study using scanning transmission electron microscopy and energy dispersive spectroscopy

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 121, Issue , 2014, Pages 58-65

  Jang, Hyo Ju ^a   Kim, Joon Mo ^a   Choi, Chul Young ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

EDS; Elemental analysis; Energy dispersive X ray spectroscopy; K F; MT; Scanning transmission electron microscopy; STEM; Sunflower cataract; TEM; WD; Wilson's disease

Indexed keywords

COPPER; SULFUR;

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTERIOR LENS CAPSULE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; CORNEA; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FAMILY HISTORY; HAND TREMOR; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUNFLOWER CATARACT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISUAL ACUITY; WILSON DISEASE;

ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUNFLOWER CATARACT; WILSON'S DISEASE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CAPSULE OF THE LENS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATARACT; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84895944502     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2014.02.003     Document Type: Article

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