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THE lens of the eye is an outstanding example of cellular differentiation. At any moment the organ shows the complete sequence of its cellular ontogeny from epithelial cells to equatorial, cortical and nuclear fibre cells1,2.
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GENIS-GALVEZ, J., CASTRO, J. & BATTANER, E. Lens Soluble Proteins: Correlation with the Cytological Differentiation in the Young Adult Organ of the Chick. Nature 217, 652–654 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217652a0
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