BASIC BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS OF 100 CATARACTOUS LENSES FROM EGYPTIAN PATIENTS

Cataractous lenses from an extended population of 100 Egyptian patient s who se age, sex and case hi story had been recorded, were collected and classified morphologically. After determination of the lens wet we ights, lenses were microsectioned and basic parameters such as wet wei ght, dry weight, water content and contents of water-soluble and water -insoluble crystallins of the samples were determined. The data obtain ed document moderate as well as drastic changes of the investigated pa rameters along with aging and cataractogenesis, and extend our knowled ge from small numbers of hitherto investigated human lenses to a consi derably high number of cases.