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The lens vesicle becomes isolated from the surface ectoderm, its cells are all contained as they line the inner surface of the lens capsule. Clinically the formation of fibrotic tissue by the lens epithelial cells causes a type of cataract or opacification and contraction of the lens capsule postcataract surgery. Production of EMT in the intact animal lens by using specific gene transfer to the lens or experimental lens injury has been shown to be a powerful tool to investigate EMT processes. It is not easy to uncover whether the origin of the myofibroblast is epithelial cell\u2010derived or from other cell lineages in fibrotic tissues. However, myofibroblasts that appear in the crystalline lens pathology are totally derived from the lens epithelial cells for the reasons mentioned above. 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