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. 1977 Sep 2;197(4307):1010-2.
doi: 10.1126/science.887936.

Phase separation of a protein-water mixture in cold cataract in the young rat lens

T Tanaka, C Ishimoto, L T Chylack Jr

Phase separation of a protein-water mixture in cold cataract in the young rat lens

T Tanaka et al. Science. .

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.

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