From the Department of Ophthalmology (Nemet, Assia), Meir Hospital, Sapir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba; the Department of Chemistry (D. Meyerstein) and the Department of Physiology (N. Meyerstein), School of Medicine, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva; the Biological Chemistry Department (D. Meyerstein), College of Judea and Samaria, Ariel; the Department of Chemistry (Gedanken, Topaz), Bar-Ilan University, Givat-Shmuel; and the Plastic Surgery Unit (Topaz), Hillel-Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel
∗Corresponding author: Dr. Arie Nemet, Department of Ophthalmology, Meir Hospital, Sapir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba, Israel.
E-mail: [email protected]
Accepted for publication October 6, 2006.
Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, May 2004; the ASCRS Symposium on Cataract, IOL and Refractive Surgery, San Diego, California, USA, May 2004; and the XXIInd Congress of the European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons, Paris, France, September 2004.
Funded in part by a grant from the Clair and Amedee Martier Institute for the Study of Blindness and Visual Disorders, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.
Lea Fostik supplied statistical analysis, and Emily Galam assisted in the preparation of the paper.
