Abstract
Radiation cataractogenesis (RCG) is deterministic. It does not occur below a minimum threshold dose. RCG is generally believed as dose-related. Sliney (1986) believed that its severity is also dose-related. The severity increased and the latency decreased as radiation dose increased above that threshold. The lens of the eye is nonvascular and is known to experience no cell loss over its lifetime, indicating that any damage to its cells will not result to the removal of these cells for lack of existing mechanism. Three induction mechanisms were explored (direct, indirect, and oxidative, which separately creates oxidative stress inside the lens Continue reading...
