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RALPH G. JANES, Ph.D.; HAROLD A. ALERT; NADINE K. JOHNSON

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1959;61(5):720-726.

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Considerable variation is seen in ophthalmic literature concerning sugar concentration ratios of aqueous humor to whole blood and aqueous humor to blood plasma. These variations may be caused, in part, either by differences in sugar levels of different species of animals studied, or because animals were given a general anesthetic before sugar samples were withdrawn, or because adequate samples were not taken to justify a conclusion. The greatest variable, however, appears to be in the blood sugar method that has been used to make the determinations.

The majority of investigators have found that the sugar levels in plasma were higher than in aqueous humor,^1-7 but there was a rather marked variation in aqueous-blood ratios found by these investigators. Furthermore, Kirby and Wiener⁸ found a higher level of dextrose in whole blood of human beings than in the aqueous humor. Aqueous and plasma sugar levels, however, have been described . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Iowa City

From the Department of Anatomy, State University of Iowa College of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov. 17, 1958.

This work was supported in part by Grant B-237, U. S. Public Health Service.

The statistical analysis was made by Dr. Paul Blommers and the Statistical Service of the State University of Iowa.

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