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. 2014 Mar 3;55(3):1202–1212. doi: 10.1167/iovs.13-13379

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Fractured fiber cell surfaces differ between wild-type and AQP0−/− lenses. (A) By SEM, midsagittal fractured surfaces show the presence of intact fibers in both cortex (c) and nucleus (n) in the wild-type lens at age 4 weeks. (B, C) In contrast, only remnant layers of intact fibers in the superficial cortex and damaged fibers in the lens nucleus are seen in the AQP0−/− lenses at age 4 weeks and age 12 weeks. The size of the AQP0−/− lens at age 4 weeks is approximately 10% smaller than that of the wild type, while the AQP0−/− lens at age 12 weeks is comparable to the 4-week-old wild type (see the Results section). Scale bars: 200 μm.