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Two lenses from patients of very advanced age with senile cataracts were processed for SEM, fractured equatorially, sputtered with Au and examined by SEM. In the cross-fracture various areas could be observed. Although the overall structure of the lens-fibres appeared to be intact, higher magnifications showed that the len-fibre material had changed into a brittle structure, with either a granular appearance or a fibrillar character. At other places clearly recrystallization of lens-fibre proteins had taken place, with the formation of finger-like substructures, sometimes organized into plate-like structures or running parallel to each other in a kind of undulating pattern. Between the various areas of chemically changed lens-fibre material certain 'canal-like' areas were found with cellular structures, the so-called 'waterclefts' or 'Wasserspalten'. Structures which, together with the chemical change in the lens proteins, account for the dramatic change in light dispersion.

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Author

W. L. Jongebloed; F. Dijk; J. G. F. Worst

Publisher

Springer-Verlag; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 0012-4486)

Published

1988

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)