04073nam 2200769 a 450 991081268670332120240516065126.097866136945089780272791752027279175X978128078411812807841139780470720875047072087597804707185750470718579(CKB)1000000000688044(EBL)703926(OCoLC)797918524(SSID)ssj0000715337(PQKBManifestationID)11472751(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000715337(PQKBWorkID)10700861(PQKB)11412154(MiAaPQ)EBC703926(Au-PeEL)EBL703926(CaPaEBR)ebr10575436(CaONFJC)MIL369450(Perlego)2769907(EXLCZ)99100000000068804419850917d1984 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHuman cataract formation1st ed.London Pitman ;Newark, N.J. Distributed in North America by CIBA Pharmaceutical Co. (Medical Education Division)19841 online resource (300 pages)Ciba Foundation symposium ;106"Symposium on Human Cataract Formation, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 25-27 October, 1983; editors, Jonathan Nugent (Organizer) and Julie Whelan"--P. v.9780470664247 047066424X 9780272797754 0272797758 Includes bibliographies and indexes.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; DiscussionGeneral 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; DiscussionThe 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 indexThe 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. Ciba Foundation symposium ;106.CataractEtiologyCongressesPathology, MolecularCongressesCataractEtiologyPathology, Molecular617.7/42Nugent Jonathan845868Whelan Julie322651Symposium on Human Cataract Formation(1983 :London)MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812686703321Human cataract formation1888743UNINA