S Giessler1, H G Struck, C Giessler. 1. Klinik und Poliklinik für Augenheilkunde, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Consensual ocular response has been known to occur following intracranial stimulation of the trigeminal nerve, intracameral injection of prostaglandins and other substances, after paracentesis and contusio bulbi. MATERIAL AND METHOD: We have examined the prostacyclin formation in both eyes after experimental alcali burn (0.25 mo/l NaOH) on 30 rabbits with ELISA over a follow up period of 14 days. RESULTS: After the alcali burn the aqueous prostacyclin level on the right eye is increased from 327 pg/ml aqueous to 27098 pg/ml aqueous, but on the left it stays normally. In conjunctiva and anterior uvea we measured normal amounts of prostacyclin. CONCLUSIONS: We could not find a consensual increase in prostacyclin formation in the anterior part of the fellow eye following alcali burn.
BACKGROUND: Consensual ocular response has been known to occur following intracranial stimulation of the trigeminal nerve, intracameral injection of prostaglandins and other substances, after paracentesis and contusio bulbi. MATERIAL AND METHOD: We have examined the prostacyclin formation in both eyes after experimental alcali burn (0.25 mo/l NaOH) on 30 rabbits with ELISA over a follow up period of 14 days. RESULTS: After the alcali burn the aqueous prostacyclin level on the right eye is increased from 327 pg/ml aqueous to 27098 pg/ml aqueous, but on the left it stays normally. In conjunctiva and anterior uvea we measured normal amounts of prostacyclin. CONCLUSIONS: We could not find a consensual increase in prostacyclin formation in the anterior part of the fellow eye following alcali burn.