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  • Title: Fluorescein transport across the human blood-retina barrier in the direction vitreous to blood. Quantitative assessment in vivo.
    Author: Engler CB, Sander B, Larsen M, Dalgaard P, Lund-Andersen H.
    Journal: Acta Ophthalmol (Copenh); 1994 Dec; 72(6):655-62. PubMed ID: 7747570.
    Abstract:
    Inward and outward movement of flourescein across the human blood-retina barrier was studied in five healthy volunteers, using a differential spectrofluorometry method that eliminates the contribution of fluorescein glucuronide to the total fluorescence in the vitreous and in plasma. The inward permeability across the blood-retina barrier, which is presumed to be passive, and the diffusion coefficient in the vitreous for fluorescein was calculated from data obtained 1 h after intravenous injection of fluorescein. The rate of elimination of fluorescein from the vitreous across the blood-retina barrier was estimated from data obtained 7 to 12 h after injection of fluorescein. The calculations were based upon the free plasma fluorescein decay curve and the preretinal fluorescein gradient in the vitreous. The mean inward permeability of fluorescein was 1.39 x 10(-7) cm/sec (range: 0.70-2.06 x 10(-7) cm/sec), whereas the mean outward permeability was 1.51 x 10(-5) cm/sec (range: 1.14-1.73 x 10(-5) cm/sec). We have thus found that the movement of fluorescein across the blood-retina barrier is highly asymmetric, the outward transport being more than 100 times faster than the passive inward leakage. This could indicate the presence of an active pumping mechanism in the blood-retina barrier, responsible for fluorescein transport in the direction from the vitreous to the blood.
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