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Human cataract formation.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Symposium on Human Cataract Formation (1983 : London)
- Series:
- Ciba Foundation symposium ; 106.
- Ciba Foundation symposium ; 106
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cataract--Etiology--Congresses.
- Cataract.
- Pathology, Molecular--Congresses.
- Pathology, Molecular.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pitman ; Newark, N.J. : Distributed in North America by CIBA Pharmaceutical Co. (Medical Education Division), 1984.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results. The Novartis Foundation, originally known as the Ciba Foundation, is well known to scientists and clinicians around the world.
- 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 formation Cytoskeletal 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 level Discussion; Final general discussion Sequence of events in cataract formation; Strategies for future research on the human lens; Index of contributors; Subject index
- Notes:
- "Symposium on Human Cataract Formation, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 25-27 October, 1983; editors, Jonathan Nugent (Organizer) and Julie Whelan"--P. v.
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613694508
- 9780272791752
- 027279175X
- 9781280784118
- 1280784113
- 9780470720875
- 0470720875
- 9780470718575
- 0470718579
- OCLC:
- 797918524
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