The effects of ischemia-induced retinal damage were quantitatively evaluated in rats with the aim of obtaining a suitable model to study the pathogenesis of the loss of retinal neurons after ischemic episodes. Anaesthetized rats were injected with 80 mg/kg i.v. of the fluorescein rose bengal dye and one eye was exposed to cold light for different periods (from 5 to 30 min). The animals were sacrificed at different times (1 and 4 hr; 2 and 7 days) after the lesion and the photochemically-induced damage was evaluated. The damaged retinae appeared thicker, numerous neurons of the inner nuclear layers showed swelling of the perinuclear cytoplasm and the retinal vessels were enlarged. The activity of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), two marker enzymes of the GABAergic and cholinergic neurons, significantly decreased, indicating a degeneration of GABAergic and cholinergic amacrine cells.

Photochemically-induced lesion of the rat retina: a quantitative model for the evaluation of ischemia-induced retinal damage / F. Moroni;G. Lombardi;S. Pellegrini-Faussone;F. Moroni. - In: VISION RESEARCH. - ISSN 0042-6989. - STAMPA. - 33:(1993), pp. 1887-1891.

Photochemically-induced lesion of the rat retina: a quantitative model for the evaluation of ischemia-induced retinal damage.

MORONI, FLAVIO;
1993

Abstract

The effects of ischemia-induced retinal damage were quantitatively evaluated in rats with the aim of obtaining a suitable model to study the pathogenesis of the loss of retinal neurons after ischemic episodes. Anaesthetized rats were injected with 80 mg/kg i.v. of the fluorescein rose bengal dye and one eye was exposed to cold light for different periods (from 5 to 30 min). The animals were sacrificed at different times (1 and 4 hr; 2 and 7 days) after the lesion and the photochemically-induced damage was evaluated. The damaged retinae appeared thicker, numerous neurons of the inner nuclear layers showed swelling of the perinuclear cytoplasm and the retinal vessels were enlarged. The activity of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), two marker enzymes of the GABAergic and cholinergic neurons, significantly decreased, indicating a degeneration of GABAergic and cholinergic amacrine cells.
1993
33
1887
1891
F. Moroni;G. Lombardi;S. Pellegrini-Faussone;F. Moroni
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