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  • Title: [NMR study of the state of water in the human lens during cataract development].
    Author: Babizhaev MA, Deev AI, Nikolaev GM.
    Journal: Biofizika; 1985; 30(4):671-4. PubMed ID: 4052470.
    Abstract:
    Water proton spin-spin relaxation times (T2) and the content of bound, "non-freezable" at -9 degrees C water in both normal human lenses and human lenses of different stages of cataract progression (cataracta incipiens, nondum matura, mature hypermatura) were measured by NMR spin echoes method. By the stage of cataracta nondum matura, increase of bound water content and simultaneous, almost half decrease of the relaxation time (T2), were observed. However, on the following stages of cataract evaluation (almost mature, mature cataracts) a gradual decrease of bound water content is noted, but only for the mature cataract stage the water content significantly differs from that of the normal one. On the stage of hypermature cataract the presence of two unexchanged with each other fractions of water is found. The obtained data are explained by lens protein reconstructions during the cataract progression.
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