The eye's aqueous humor is secreted by a bilayered ciliary epithelium comprising pigmented (PE) and nonpigmented (NPE) epithelial cell layers. Stromal Cl(-) enters the PE cells and crosses gap junctions to the NPE cells for release into the aqueous humor. Maxi-Cl(-) channels are expressed in PE cells, but their physiological significance is unclear. To address this question, excised patches and...

This study presents the simulation of the specific absorption rate (SAR), fluid flow and heat transfer in an anatomical human eye exposed to EM fields in the supine position. In this study, the frequencies of 900 and 1800 MHz were chosen for our simulations. This work focuses on the aqueous humor natural convection of the lying human eye induced by electromagnetic (EM) fields. In this study, th...

PURPOSE To determine the kinetics of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) in serum and aqueous humor of rats with different susceptibilities to endotoxin-induced uveitis (EIU), after footpad injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). METHODS Samples were collected from EIU-susceptible Lewis rats and EIU-resistant Brown Norway (BN) rats for up to 72 hours after LPS injection. Speci...

BACKGROUND An analyses of the concentration of arachidonic acid metabolites and the infiltration of leukocytes in the aqueous humour of rabbits after excimer laser keratectomy was performed. The ability of topical diclofenac to block prostaglandin E2 liberation into the aqueous humour was also investigated. METHODS Photorefractive keratectomy was performed on both eyes of 60 New Zealand rabbi...

Aqueous fluorophotometric, tracer localization and modeling methods were combined to document the existence of a pathway in the normal rabbit for the diffusion of proteins from the ciliary and iridial process stromas through the iris stroma into the aqueous humor of the anterior chamber. A new custom-conjugated tracer, fluoresceinated horseradish peroxidase (F-HRP), was used. Anesthetized rabbi...

In our previous study, we found that acute anterior uveitis (AAU) could be induced in wild-type mice (C3H/HeN), but it could not be induced in TLR4 gene-deficient mice (C3H/HeJ), we concluded that the translocation of transcription factor nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) may play an important role. In this study, we examined the concentration of different cytokines in the aqueous humor of C3H/HeN mice...

Composite data describing ocular pharmacokinetics are unreliable because of intersubject variation. To address this problem, an animal model was developed in which multiple aqueous samples from single subjects were obtained. Following direct anterior chamber or intravenous administration of amikacin or chloramphenicol, pharmacokinetic analysis of drug concentrations in the serum and anterior ch...

The purpose of this study was to compare the local and systemic Toxoplasma-specific humoral immune responses in individuals with ocular toxoplasmosis (OT). To this end, paired aqueous humor and serum samples from 46 individuals with active OT and from 30 individuals without inflammatory eye disease (controls) were analyzed by immunoblotting for anti-Toxoplasma immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgA, IgM, ...

PURPOSE Based on contact lens-induced stromal acidification of the cornea, it has been suggested that the corneal epithelial and endothelial cells also become acidotic during contact lens wear. This alleged acidification may have a role in altered cell appearance and metabolism during contact lens wear. This study investigated the effects of anoxia, carbon dioxide retention, and contact lens ga...

AIM Retinal permeability is one of the important parameters that determine drug distribution during diseased retinal conditions, whose effect is still unclear. Thus, the main aim of this study was to understand the influence of varying retinal permeability (P) on drug distribution under normal (F1) and elevated vitreous outflow pathophysiologic conditions (F10) for a wide variety of drug diffus...