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… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Radiocarbon Dating of the Human Eye Lens Crystallines Reveal Proteins without Carbon Turnover throughout Life
BACKGROUND Lens crystallines are special proteins in the eye lens. Because the epithelial basement membrane (lens capsule… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Change in shape of the aging human crystalline lens with accommodation
The objective was to measure the change in shape of the aging human crystalline eye lens in vivo during accommodation… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Biometric, optical and physical changes in the isolated human crystalline lens with age in relation to presbyopia
The biometric, optical and physical properties of 19 pairs of isolated human eye-bank lenses ranging in age from 5 to 96 years… (More)
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Review
1999
Review
1999
Genetic diseases and gene knockouts reveal diverse connexin functions.
Intercellular channels present in gap junctions allow cells to share small molecules and thus coordinate a wide range of… (More)
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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… (More)
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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… (More)
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Review
1992
Review
1992
The crystalline lens. A system networked by gap junctional intercellular communication.
The vertebrate eye lens is a solid cyst of cells which grows throughout life by addition of new cells at the surface. The older… (More)
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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Age and the transmittance of the human crystalline lens.
1. Conflicting data both on the transmission of the human crystalline lens in the ultra-violet part of the spectrum and on its… (More)
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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.
Aspartyl and asparaginyl deamidation, isomerization, and racemization reactions have been studied in synthetic peptides to model… (More)
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Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Short-range order of crystallin proteins accounts for eye lens transparency
In its normal state, the eye lens is transparent despite the presence in the cell cytoplasm of high concentrations of proteins… (More)
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