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Author Symposium, CIBA Foundation

Title Human Cataract Formation
Published Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (300 pages)
Series Novartis Foundation Symposia ; v. 840
Novartis Foundation Symposia
Contents Human cataract formation; Contents; Introduction; Classification of human cataractous change by the American Cooperative Cataract Research Group method; Discussion; Epidemiological and other studies in the assessment of factors contributing to cataractogenesis; Discussion; Oxidation and cataract; Discussion; Metabolism and function of glutathione in the lens; Discussion; Cataracts and photochemical damage in the lens; Discussion; Diabetic and galactosaemic cataracts; Discussion; Calcium and the physiology of cataract; Discussion
General discussion Causes and mechanisms of human cataract formationCytoskeletal proteins of the ageing human lens; Discussion; Interaction of crystallins with M. Vermorken, I. Dunia and E.L. Benedetti the cytoskeletal-plasma membrane complex of the bovine lens; Discussion; Crystallin genes: templates for lens transparency; Discussion; The crystallin gene families; The molecular structures and interactions of bovine and human Y- crystallins; Discussion; The molecular basis of cataract formation; Discussion
The application of non-invasive techniques to the study of cataract development on the metabolic and the protein molecular levelDiscussion; Final general discussion Sequence of events in cataract formation; Strategies for future research on the human lens; Index of contributors; Subject index
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Subject Cataract -- Etiology -- Congresses
Pathology, Molecular -- Congresses
Cataract -- Etiology.
Pathology, Molecular.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780470718575
0470718579