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4A) had 6% fewer fiber folds per 20 μm than the diabetics with nuclear cataract (Fig.
The age-related cataractous lenses revealed an average EN A-P axis length that was only 2% smaller than in the diabetics with cataract ( p = 0.855), with 11% fewer EN fiber folds per 20 μm ( p = 0.045).
Several population studies have documented a link between diabetes and senile cataract formation in persons aged 65 years and younger [ 21 22 23 24 25 26 ] . Conversely, a number of studies have shown little association of nuclear cataracts with diabetes [ 27 28 29 ] . Though this relationship continues to be debated, as are the underlying physiological mechanisms, premature opacification may occur due to an increased susceptibility to oxidative damage.
Previously, studies of phenotypes in this laboratory have shown that SPARC-null mice develop osteopenia around 2.5 months of age [ 19 ] in bones where SPARC is normally the most abundant non-collagenous glycoprotein [ 3 ] . The second phenotype thus far uncovered is in the lens where SPARC is normally produced by lens epithelial cells [ 20 21 ] and is a component of the lens capsule [ 20 22 ] . SPARC-null mice show progressive cataract formation beginning approximately 1.5 months after birth [ 14 21 ] . Electron microscopy of the SPARC-null lens revealed abnormality at the lens cell-ECM (capsule) interface with an intrusion of cellular processes into the basement membrane of the lens capsule, whereas wild-type lens exhibited a precise border at the cell-matrix interface [ 23 ] . In the present study, we show for the first time that SPARC plays a role in wound repair in vivo and in vitro.
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