Abstract

Lens aging has been a matter of widespread interest. It has been well recognized that lens aging results from disorder in the physicochemical arrangement of three kinds of lens proteins (α-, β-, and γ-crystallins) caused by lens dehydration, formation of protein aggregates, and so on (1, 2). In order to understand the mechanism of lens aging, it is very important to probe in vivo the process of lens dehydration and age-related structural changes in the lens proteins.

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