AlphaA-crystallin expression prevents gamma-crystallin insolubility and cataract formation in the zebrafish cloche mutant lens.

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Cataracts, the loss of lens transparency, are the leading cause of human blindness. The zebrafish embryo, with its transparency and relatively large eyes, is an excellent model for studying ocular disease in vivo. We found that the zebrafish cloche mutant, both the cloche(m39) and cloche(S5) alleles, which have defects in hematopoiesis and blood vessel development, also have lens cataracts. Quantitative...

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