Fibre cell organization in crystalline lenses

JR Kuszak, RK Zoltoski, C Sivertson - Experimental eye research, 2004 - Elsevier
This review qualitatively and quantitatively compares the gross shape and size of lenses
from different species as a function of their fibre cell organization. Grossly, all vertebrate
lenses are asymmetrical, oblate spheroids with size and spheroidicity that varies
considerably between species. Correlative LM and SEM analysis of the basic structural
element of lenses, the fibre cell, shows that the average equatorial fibre width and thickness
is relatively constant between most species. This indicates that inter-species differences in …