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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2007 Jun;48(6):2685–2694. doi: 10.1167/iovs.06-0926

FIGURE 4.

FIGURE 4

Light micrographs of the whole lens section and magnified equatorial region from 8-week-old wild-type, α3Cx46−/−,CAPN3−/−, and dKO lenses. The epithelial (Ep) differentiation zone was profoundly altered in the α3Cx46−/− lenses such that the cells had a delayed and abnormal entry into the elongation process in the immature cortex. In the CAPN3−/− lens, the epithelial differentiation zone was slightly altered, but the elongation process appeared to be normal. Last, the effects of the original deficiency were partially reversed in the dKO lens. Eq, equator.