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ERNST H. BÁRÁNY, M.D.

Arch Ophthalmol. 1962;67(3):303-311.

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The ocular hypotony observed by Linnér and Prijot¹ to occur 24 hours after excision of the superior cervical ganglion in rabbits was shown by Langham and Taylor² and by Sears and Bárány³ to be due to a marked increase in facility of outflow. The phenomenon (henceforth called the ganglionectomy effect) has been tentatively explained by Sears and Bárány as being partly due to the release of a facility-increasing -adrenergic substance from degenerating nerve endings in the eye and partly to a decrease in a facility-decreasing β-adrenergic substance. The present paper reports a number of further experiments regarding this question.

Methods

Technique.

—With unimportant exceptions, the technique used was that employed by Sears and Bárány.³ Briefly, albino rabbits, mainly males, weighing between 2 and 2.5 kg., underwent superior cervical ganglionectomy under a short-acting barbiturate. For measurement of facility and pressure (in the standard experiment 24 hours later) . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Uppsala, Sweden

From the Department of Pharmacology, Uppsala University.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 27, 1961.

Supported in part by research grant B-3060 from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, U.S. Public Health Service.

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