Oxygen permeability of the limiting layers of the cornea.
Using polarography and suitable mathematical analysis, the oxygen permeability of an individual layer of a bilayered tissue may be determined if the oxygen consumption and permeability of the other layer are known. Results obtained on rabbit cornea indicate that the permeability of the epithelium is about four times that of the endothelium.
D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D001703:Biophysics / Q000295:instrumentation; D003315:Cornea / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D004058:Diffusion; D004848:Epithelium / Q000187:drug effects; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D010100:Oxygen / Q000494:pharmacology; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D010313:Partial Pressure; D010539:Permeability; D011048:Polarography; D011817:Rabbits
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