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Lens, Crystalline

Known as: Ocular Lens, EYE, LENS, Lens Of Eye 
A clear disk that focuses light, as in a camera or microscope. In the eye, the lens is a clear, curved structure at the front of the eye behind the… 
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Review
2004
Review
2004
Ageing and vision: structure, stability and function of lens crystallins.
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Evolution, structure and function of the small heat shock proteins in plants
The a-crystallin-related, small heat shock proteins (smHSPs) are ubiquitous in nature, but are unusually abundant and diverse in… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
The role of Pax-6 in eye and nasal development.
Small eye (Sey) mice homozygous for mutations in the Pax-6 gene have no lenses and no nasal cavities. We have examined the… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
p53-dependent apoptosis produced by Rb-deficiency in the developing mouse lens
THE retinoblastoma tumour-suppressor gene (RB) has been implicated in negative growth regulation, induction of differentiation… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Small heat shock proteins are molecular chaperones.
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Alpha-crystallin can function as a molecular chaperone.
  • J. Horwitz
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
  • 1992
  • Corpus ID: 38227297
The alpha-crystallins (alpha A and alpha B) are major lens structural proteins of the vertebrate eye that are related to the… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Targeted oncogene activation by site-specific recombination in transgenic mice.
An efficient and accurate method for controlled in vivo transgene modulation by site-directed recombination is described. Seven… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Age and the transmittance of the human crystalline lens.
  • R. Weale
  • The Journal of physiology
  • 1988
  • Corpus ID: 10355564
1. Conflicting data both on the transmission of the human crystalline lens in the ultra‐violet part of the spectrum and on its… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Deamidation, isomerization, and racemization at asparaginyl and aspartyl residues in peptides. Succinimide-linked reactions that contribute to protein degradation.
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Surfactin, a crystalline peptidelipid surfactant produced by Bacillus subtilis: isolation, characterization and its inhibition of fibrin clot formation.
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