Biological glass: structural determinants of eye lens transparency
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Biological glass: structural determinants of eye lens transparency.
The purpose of the lens is to project a sharply focused, undistorted image of the visual surround onto the neural retina. The first pre-requisite, therefore, is that the tissue should be transparent. Despite the presence of remarkably high levels of protein, the lens cytosol remains transparent as a result of short-range-order interactions between the proteins. At a cellular level, the programm...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0302