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Lens Capsule, Crystalline

"Lens Capsule, Crystalline" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The thin noncellular outer covering of the CRYSTALLINE LENS composed mainly of COLLAGEN TYPE IV and GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS. It is secreted by the embryonic anterior and posterior epithelium. The embryonic posterior epithelium later disappears.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Lens Capsule, Crystalline" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Lens Capsule, Crystalline" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 32 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 1997 and 2009
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.