Table 1. Morphological assessment of cataract formation of each group’s isolated lenses.
| Group | No of lenses with different degree of opacification |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 0 | Grade 1 | Grade 2 | Grade 3 | Median (range) | |
| I (n=18) |
18 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 (0) |
| II (n=16) |
0 |
0 |
10 |
6 |
2 (2–3) * |
| III (n=18) | 0 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 (1–3) *, ‡ |
Incidence and staging of cataract formation of the isolated lenses in each experimental group. Group I: Control, Group II: Selenite-treated, Group III: Selenite+Saffron-treated. The Mann–Whitney U test was used for pairwise comparisons. Different symbols indicate statistically significant difference between groups. * p<0.0001 compared with group I. ‡ p<0.05 compared with group II.