From the Department of Ophthalmology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan (Komatsu, Masuda, Iida, Ichihara, Nakano); Department of Pathology, TheJikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan (Iwauchi, Kubota, Iwamoto, Shimoda); Department of Ophthalmology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan (Kawai); Support Office for Bioresource Research, Center for Translational Research, Translational Research Headquarters, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan (Yamamoto).

Corresponding author: Yoichiro Masuda, MD, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8 Nishi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8461, Japan. Email: [email protected].

Presented at The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Cataract Research/The 49th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Crystalline Lens Research, Morioka, Japan, June 2023; and The 38th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Cataract and Reflective surgery (JSCRS), Sapporo, Japan, July 2023.

Disclosures: None of the authors have any financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

First author:Koji Komatsu, MD, MBADepartment of Ophthalmology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan