Polymorphisms in sodium-dependent vitamin C transporter genes and plasma, aqueous humor and lens nucleus ascorbate concentrations in an ascorbate depleted setting

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 124, Issue , 2014, Pages 24-30

  Senthilkumari, Srinivasan ^a   Talwar, Badri ^b   Dharmalingam, Kuppamuthu ^a   Ravindran, Ravilla D ^b   Jayanthi, Ramamurthy ^b   Sundaresan, Periasamy ^a   Saravanan, Charu ^a   Young, Ian S ^c   Dangour, Alan D ^d   Fletcher, Astrid E ^d  

^a ARAVIND MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

^b ARAVIND EYE HOSPITAL   (India)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aqueous humor ascorbate; Cataract; Lens nucleus ascorbate; Plasma ascorbate; SLC23A1; SLC23A2

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ASCORBIC ACID; SODIUM ASCORBIC ACID COTRANSPORTER;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALLELE; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCISION; INDIA; LENS NUCLEUS; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING; TOBACCO USE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AQUEOUS HUMOR ASCORBATE; CATARACT; LENS NUCLEUS ASCORBATE; PLASMA ASCORBATE; SLC23A1; SLC23A2;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ASCORBIC ACID; CATARACT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DNA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LENS NUCLEUS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SODIUM-COUPLED VITAMIN C TRANSPORTERS;

EID: 84901497921     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2014.04.022     Document Type: Article

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