Abnormal Retinal Vascular Oxygen Tension Response to Light Flicker in Diabetic Rats
Abnormal Retinal Vascular Oxygen Tension Response to Light Flicker in Diabetic Rats
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DOI:
10.1167/iovs.09-3465
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发表时间:
2009-11-01
影响因子:
4.4
通讯作者:
Shahidi, Mahnaz
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作者:
Blair, Norman P.;Wanek, Justin M.;Shahidi, Mahnaz
PURPOSE. To test the hypothesis that the intravascular oxygen response to light flicker is abnormal in diabetes.METHODS. Ten eyes of normal rats and 10 eyes of rats made diabetic with streptozotocin were examined. Oxygen tension (PO2) was measured noninvasively in the retinal arteries and veins on optical section retinal images. PO2 was estimated based on the quenching by oxygen of the phosphorescence of an intravenously injected palladium porphyrin molecular probe. Measurements were conducted with and without light flicker at 10 Hz. Oxygen saturation (SO2) was calculated with adjustment for the arterial pH.RESULTS. In the normal rats flicker induced an increase in arterial PO2 and in the difference in arterial and venous (A-V difference) PO2 from 51 +/- 5 (mean and SD) to 55 +/- 7 mm Hg and from 22 +/- 3 to 26 +/- 5 mm Hg, respectively (P < 0.002 and 0.015, respectively). Flicker induced an increase of arterial SO2 and A-V SO2 difference from 64% +/- 8% to 68% +/- 7% and from 34% +/- 4% to 38% +/- 6%, respectively (P < 0.002 and 0.035, respectively). No changes in PO2 or SO2 were observed with flicker in the veins. In the diabetic rats, no significant flicker-induced changes were seen in PO2 or SO2 in the retinal arteries, veins, or A-V differences.CONCLUSIONS. The diabetic rats lacked the flicker induced increase in arterial PO2 and SO2 and also the A-V difference in PO2 and SO2 observed in the normal rats. The best explanation appeared to be that diabetes impairs the increase in oxygen consumption normally provoked by light flicker. (Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2009;50:5444-5448) DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3465