Effect of neurogenic irritation and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) on ocular blood flow in the rabbit
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Current Eye Research
- Vol. 7 (7) , 695-703
- https://doi.org/10.3109/02713688809033199
Abstract
The effects of sensory nerve stimulation (topical neutral formaldehyde, 1%) and intracameral injection of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) on regional ocular blood flow, intraocular pressure (IOP), the blood-aqueous barrier, pupil size, and blood pressure were studied in the rabbit. Sensory nerve stimulation elicited a typical irritative response in the rabbit eye, with vasodilation in the ciliary body (from 128–31 to 363±105 mg/min, p < 0.05) accompanied with a breakdown of the blood-aqueous barrier, rise in the IOP, and miosis. CGRP caused similar, but not identical, changes in the eye: vasodilation in the ciliary body (from 60±14 to 258±75 mg/min, p < 0.05), breakdown of the blood-aqueous barrier and rise in the IOP, accompanied with systemic hypotension. Miosis was not observed after CGRP. In the present study, the vasodilatory action of CGRP on the rabbit eye has been shown. This makes our understanding of the mechanism of the ocular irritative response after sensory nerve stimulation more complete. Thus, CGRP through vasodilation disrupts the blood-aqueous barrier and raises the IOP. The more intense increase in the IOP after sensory nerve stimulation than after CGRP is probably caused by a CGRP-induced vasodilation and breakdown of the blood-aqueous barrier, enhanced by a miosis-induced pupillary block.This publication has 45 references indexed in Scilit:
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