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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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Age-related cataractAnterior surface of lensAphakiaBilateral cataracts (disorder)

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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
The fate of the Golgi apparatus and the endoplasmic reticulum during lens fiber cell differentiation.
PURPOSE To establish the fate of the Golgi apparatus and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) during lens fiber differentiation… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Reconstitution of intermediate-sized filaments from denatured monomeric vimentin.
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
PHOTOSENSITIZED OXIDATION IN THE OCULAR LENS: EVIDENCE FOR PHOTOSENSITIZERS ENDOGENOUS TO THE HUMAN LENS
Abstract— Numerous investigators have attempted to associate near UV light exposure with various changes which occur to lens… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Comparison of the proteins of two immunologically distinct intermediate-sized filaments by amino acid sequence analysis: desmin and vimentin.
Although all intermediate-size filaments (10-nm filaments) seem to show similar morphology and share a number of biochemical… 
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
1975
Highly Cited
1975
Stepwise degradations and deamidation of the eye lens protein α-crystallin in ageing
KNOWLEDGE of the intracellular processes of ageing and breakdown of proteins is still very limited1,2, but the extremely slow… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Changes to the proteins of the human lens nucleus in cataract.
Review
1971
Review
1971
The control of cell division in the ocular lens.
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Eye Lens Color: Formation and Function
Aromatic amino acids are photooxidized by near-ultraviolet light to colored products that are bound very tightly to protein amino… 
Review
1967
Review
1967
Cellular and subcellular events in Wolffian lens regeneration.
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