GROWTH OF LENS AND OCULAR ENVIRONMENT: ROLE OF NEURAL RETINA IN THE GROWTH OF MOUSE LENS AS REVEALED BY AN IMPLANTATION EXPERIMENT
- 31 December 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Development, Growth & Differentiation
- Vol. 18 (3), 273-278
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-169x.1976.00273.x
Abstract
The lens of 6 day old normal mouse was implanted into the lentectomized eye of adult mouse to examine the effect of retina upon the growth of the implanted lens in vivo. The implanted lens grew normally and its transparency was kept for more than 5 mo. after implantation. The connection between the implanted lens and the ciliary part of the recipient iris was well established with the regeneration of zonular fibers from the recipient. In young lenses implanted reversely into adult eyes, the epithelial cells facing the retina elongated and a new epithelium was formed on the corneal side of the lens within 5 days. Young lenses implanted either in normal or reverse orientation into eyes from which the retina was previously removed did not grow. The cells of the original lens epithelium of these lenses were randomly accumulated beneath the posterior lens capsule, while the anterior portion of the implanted lenses became an epithelial structure without cell elongation. The growth of the implanted lens may be dependent on the retina of the adult eye.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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