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Abstract

Results obt,ained in our laboratory have demonstrated that nuclear cataract formation is accompanied by a. progressive decrease in the level of glutatbione-especially within the nucleus (Truscott a.nd Augusteyn, 1977). We wondered if this might be ascribed to a decrease in lens glutathione reductase.

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