Chromatin Degradation in Differentiating Fiber Cells of the Eye Lens
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Chromatin Degradation in Differentiating Fiber Cells of the Eye Lens
During development, the lens of the eye becomes transparent, in part because of the elimination of nuclei and other organelles from the central lens fiber cells by an apoptotic-like mechanism. Using confocal microscopy we showed that, at the border of the organelle-free zone (OFZ), fiber cell nuclei became suddenly irregular in shape, with marginalized chromatin. Subsequently, holes appeared in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cell Biology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0021-9525,1540-8140
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.137.1.37