title: Quantitative determination of aqueous flare and cells in healthy eyes.
abstract: We studied 263 eyes of 141 normal subjects, 33 men and 108 women, including 129 Finns and 12 Ibero-Americans, with the age ranging between 12 and 89 (mean 43.0 +/- 20.4) years using the Kowa FC-1000 laser flare cell meter. The mean photon count/ms was 4.5, it was 3.1 in the age groups of 10-19 years and 11.5 in the age group of 80 years or over; the increase with age was statistically significant (p = 0.0001). There were no significant differences in the photon count/ms between right and left eyes (p = 0.75), between sexes (p = 0.61), or between Ibero-Americans and age-matched Finns (p = 0.62). The mean cell count was 1.1 and there were no significant changes between the right and left eyes (p = 0.56) or between different age (p = 0.38), sex (p = 0.32) and race (p = 0.64) groups. There were no significant differences in the mean photon count/ms (p = 0.97) and cell counts (p = 0.35) between the first and second measurements 5 min later. There was no subject-within variability after 24 h and 7 days in the flare (p = 0.95) and cell counts (p = 0.89).
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Turku, Finland.
authors.forename: O M
authors.initials: OM
authors.lastname: Guillén-Monterrubío
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hartikainen
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Taskinen
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Saari
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001082:Aqueous Humor / Q000737:chemistry / Q000166:cytology*; D002452:Cell Count / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D003584:Cytological Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005136:Eye Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation; D007834:Lasers; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D005136:Eye Proteins