%0 Journal Article
%T Answers to Quiz Corner
%J Archive of "The Canadian Veterinary Journal".
%D 2019
%X D) The glucose within the lens overwhelms the hexokinase pathway, causing the excess glucose to be converted to sorbitol within the hexose-monophosphate shunt. The sorbitol is trapped within the lens, causing an increase in osmotic pressure that draws fluid into the lens and swells the lens fibers
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6294025/