. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2006 Jul;47(7):2997–3003. doi: 10.1167/iovs.06-0130

Table 1.

Temporal Distribution of Heavily- and Lightly-labeled Cells (LRCs) Within the Lens Epithelium

	Heavily - labeled Cells Mean ± SD		Lightly - labeled Cells Mean ± SD
Weeks^*	Central	Germinative	Central	Germinative
1	120±20	90±8	14±6	9±2
2	23±8	31±12	51±5	42±7
3	22±11	11±5	41±5	48±9
4	7±1	5±3	35±4	40±5
5	4±2	4±2	27±5	26±8
6	8±4	4±3	29±6	21±6
9	8±4	6±4	24±3	30±6
12	5±2	0±0	18±3	2±2
18.5	6±3	0±0	17±4	4±1

Time after the last injection of ³H-Tdr into neonatal mice that were labeled in utero. This is the “chase” period.