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PRODUCTION OF HUMAN LENS CAPSULE ILLUSTRATED BY A CASE OF CHRONIC LENTICULAR CHALCOSIS
Author(s) -
SELAND JOHAN H.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1976.tb01259.x
Subject(s) - resorption , lens capsule , capsule , lens (geology) , anatomy , biology , endocrinology , botany , paleontology
The osmiophilic capsular inclusion bodies in a case of accidental lenticular chalcosis have been used as an in vivo indicator of capsular production. Copper stimulation and hence inclusion impregnation lasted 5 years and was stopped 2 years before removal of the lens by extraction of a foreign body. The amount of capsule produced in the two year period varied at different locations in the lens but it greatly exceeded the previously measured quantities. A capsular turnover is postulated with a capsular production by the epithelial cells and a surface resorption process. The production rate is considered to be relatively high in childhood and gradually subsides with increasing age.