Luck, SaraChoh, Vivian Cheng-Pei2017-03-082017-03-082011-10-22http://www.molvis.org/molvis/v17/a298/http://hdl.handle.net/10012/11465This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, used for non-commercial purposes, and is not altered or transformed. Originally published: Luck, S., & Choh, V. (2011, October 22). Effects of a myosin light chain kinase inhibitor on the optics and accommodation of the avian crystalline lens. Molecular Vision, 17, 2759-2764. from http://www.molvis.org/molvis/v17/a298/Actin and myosin within the crystalline lens maintain the structural integrity of lens fiber cells and form a hexagonal lattice cradling the posterior surface of the lens. The actomyosin network was pharmacologically disrupted to examine the effects on lenticular biomechanics and optical quality.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Myosin light chain kinase (MLCK)InhibitorML-7OpticsAccommodationAvianCrystalline lensFocal lengthArticle