This pressure gradient is highly regulated by a dual feedback system, which can be manipulated pharmacologically to upregulate water transport through the lens and subsequently increase the delivery of antioxidants to the core region of the lens to prevent age-related nuclear cataracts
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Sulforaphane (54) is a potent inducer of the Nrf2 transcription factor, has excellent blood brain barrier penetration (55), and might expand the size of the glutathione reservoir by increasing expression of GCL, the rate liming step in glutathione biogenesis
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