Figure 1. Images of regenerated lenses after the seventeenth lentectomy.

An experimental lentectomy no. 17 lens (right) compared with a control intact lens taken from an animal that had never undergone lens regeneration (control no. 17) (left). Top panels: photography of the whole lens (back lit or back and front lit). Note similarity in size and transparency as well as the normal arrangement of lens fibres around the equatorial circumference. Lower panels: sections from these lenses indicating a normal arrangement of lens fibres and normal lens morphology. From left to right: section showing lens fibre arrangement; a cross-section showing normal morphology of the lens with its nucleus (n) containing the primary fibres and the cortex (c) containing secondary fibres; staining of a section with β5-crystallin antibody to visualize fibres at higher magnification. Bar, 0.25 mm.