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  • Title: Tryptophan Raman/457.9-nm-excited fluorescence of intact guinea pig lenses in aging and ultraviolet light.
    Author: Barron BC, Yu NT, Kuck JF.
    Journal: Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci; 1987 May; 28(5):815-21. PubMed ID: 3570691.
    Abstract:
    Normal age-matched guinea pig lenses were compared with those exposed to (1) long-term ultraviolet (UV) light (9 months, 353-nm peak) in vivo, and (2) short-term UV light (3.5 hr, 325 nm) in vitro from a helium-cadmium laser. Tryptophan Raman and 457.9-nm-excited fluorescence profiles along the visual axis (VA) were obtained by taking 21 (for tryptophan) or 11 (for fluorescence) successive spectra for each intact lens using the Raman optical dissection technique. To indicate the extent of UV exposure, fluorescence spectra were obtained along the VA (excitation/emission = 457.9/497 nm); these spectra indicated that the major alteration by UV was in the nucleus with the least in the posterior cortex. Normal aging lenses had no apparent change in the tryptophan profile between 3 days and 12 months. The UV-irradiated lenses also showed no appreciable difference from the normal aging patterns. These results indicate that there is no detectable tryptophan photolysis in the intact guinea pig lens by longwave UV light.
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