This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (11)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

A Study in the Cynomolgus Monkey, Macaca irus

WILLIAM J. CASEY

Arch Ophthalmol. 1965;74(6):841-844.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

It is well accepted that the rise in intraocular pressure seen in both normal and glaucomatous eyes following ingestion of a substantial volume of water is accompanied by a reduction in blood tonicity.^1,2 This sudden change in osmolarity of the blood presumably promotes an increased rate of influx of water into the eye. It has been reported that outflow facility decreases following water ingestion and that this too may contribute to the pressure rise. This has been observed in both normal and glaucomatous eyes, but to a much greater extent in the latter.³ Other authors^4,5 have reported little or no effect on facility after water. It has also been reported that in normal eyes there is an increase in facility following water while in glaucomatous eyes facility remains unchanged.⁶

All of these studies have used tonography to assess facility. It is known that tonography has many . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
San Francisco

From the Department of Pharmacology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 25, 1965.

Reprint requests to Department of Ophthalmology, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, Calif 94122.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?