Research Catalog

Title

The human lens--in relation to cataract.

Author

Symposium on the Human Lens--in Relation to Cataract (1973 : London, England)

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier : Associated Scientific, 1973.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Elliott, Katherine May.
• FitzSimons, David W.
• Ciba Foundation.

Description

x, 324 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Ciba Foundation symposium ; 19 (new ser.)

Uniform Title

Ciba Foundation symposium ; new ser. 19.

Subject

• Crystalline lens > Congresses
• Cataract > Congresses
• Cataract
• Crystalline lens
• Cataract
• Crystallins
• Crystallins > metabolism
• Lens, Crystalline
• Lens, Crystalline > pathology
• Crystalline lens
• Cataractes
• Oftalmologia > Congressos

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 30th January-1st February 1973.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

The effects of the ageing lens on vision / R.A. Weale -- Morphological changes of the lens with age and cataract / R. Weekers, Y. Delmarcelle, J. Luyckx-Bacus, J. Collignon -- Lens changes responsible for increased light scattering in some types of senile cataract / B.T. Philipson, P.P. Fagerholm -- Differences in proteins and in the water balance of the lens in nuclear and cortical types of senile cataract / Giovanni Maraini, Roberto Mangili -- Role of membranes in controlling ion and water movements in the lens / George Duncan -- Enzyme activity patterns in clear human lenses and in different types of human senile cataract / D. Friedburg -- Membrane lipids and proteins in ageing lens and cataract / R.M. Broekhuyse -- The glucoside of 3-hydroxykynurenine and other fluorescent compounds in the human lens / Ruth Van Heyningen -- Oxidation of thiol groups of the human lens / Jin H. Kinoshlta, Lorenzo O. Merola -- Preliminary observations upon the proteins of the human lens / A. Spector, J. Stauffer, J. Sigelman -- Low molecular weight proteins of the lens / L.R. Croft -- Immunological studies on normal and pathological lenses / W. Manski -- Miotic-induced cataract / Uno Axelsson -- Cataract in Punjab / Arin Chatterjee -- Problems of cataract epidemiology with special reference to diabetes / F.I. Caird.

ISBN

• 0444150161
• 9780444150165
• 9780444151063
• 0444151060
• 9021940205
• 9789021940205
• 0444151061 (canceled/invalid)
• 0444151060 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

73085703

OCLC

• ocm00914606
• 914606
• SCSB-299114

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library