title: Intravitreal and intraretinal oxygen tension in the rat eye.
abstract: We have successfully measured the intravitreal and intraretinal oxygen distribution in normal rats, during both normoxia and hyperoxia. The feasibility of such measurements in the very small rat eye has opened up the opportunity for the use of the many rat models of vascular disease in physiological experiments of retinal oxygen supply and consumption.
authors.affiliation: Lions Eye Institute, University of Western Australia, Nedlands.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Cringle
authors.forename: D Y
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Alder
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D008297:Male; D008839:Microelectrodes; D010100:Oxygen / Q000032:analysis; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012160:Retina / Q000378:metabolism*; D014018:Tissue Distribution; D014822:Vitreous Body / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen