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Vitreous humor

Known as: Whole portion of vitreous humor, Humor vitreus, Vitr fld 
The clear jelly-like substance that fills the inside of the eyeball. As a person ages, the vitreous humor becomes more liquid.
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2000
2000
Is vitreous humour useful for the interpretation of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) blood levels?
Abstract As drug instability and redistribution are factors known to affect the interpretation of post-mortem blood levels, we… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
Synthetic inhibitors of bacterial and mammalian interstitial collagenases.
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Insulin-like growth factor I stimulates proliferation, migration, and plasminogen activator release by human retinal pigment epithelial cells.
The migration of retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells from their normal anatomic position to a new position in the vitreous… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Structural relaxation in vitreous silica.
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Natural history of retinopathy of prematurity.
Sixty-nine infants at risk of developing retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) were entered into a prospective study to assess the… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Lentropin: a factor in vitreous humor which promotes lens fiber cell differentiation.
An activity has been identified in chicken vitreous humor which stimulates embryonic chicken lens epithelial cells to elongate… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Re-examination of horizontal cells in the carp retina with procion yellow electrode
Highly Cited
1975
Highly Cited
1975
The compacted states of vitreous silica
Highly Cited
1959
Highly Cited
1959
Vitreous opacities diagnostic of familial primary amyloidosis.
IN 1953 Kantarjian and DeJong1 first described the A presence of vitreous opacities in a family with amyloidosis. Subsequently… 
Highly Cited
1956
Highly Cited
1956
Resting Potential of the Lens *
THE metabolic activity of the lens has been very extensively studied, and something is known of its internal ionic composition… 
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