Phase Separation of a Protein-Water Mixture in Cold Cataract in the Young Rat Lens
- 2 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 197 (4307), 1010-1012
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.887936
Abstract
A remarkable resemblance between the appearance of opacity in lysozyme--salt water mixtures and the development of opacity in cold cataract in the young rat lens is strong evidence that cold cataract is fundamentally a phase separation of the "protein-water binary mixture" in the lens.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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