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  • Title: Microinjection of L-lactate in the preretinal vitreous induces segmental vasodilation in the inner retina of miniature pigs.
    Author: Brazitikos PD, Pournaras CJ, Munoz JL, Tsacopoulos M.
    Journal: Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci; 1993 Apr; 34(5):1744-52. PubMed ID: 8473114.
    Abstract:
    PURPOSE: The authors investigated the hypothesis that the retinal vasomotor effect of acute hypoxia is mediated by lactate. METHODS: Retinal vasomotor arteriolar response was measured in the intact eyes of miniature pigs after systemic administration and after local preretinal juxta-arteriolar microinjection of lactate. RESULTS: Injection of L-lactate (physiologically produced lactate) into the systemic circulation decreased the arterial blood pH but did not dilate the retinal arterioles. By contrast, microinjections of L-lactate (0.5 mol/l, pH 2) into the juxta-arteriolar vitreous induced a reversible segmental vasodilation of 32 +/- 4% (standard deviation). This vasodilation did not depend on periarteriolar pH lowering because microinjections of a 0.5 mol/l L-lactate at neutral pH also dilated segmentally the retinal arterioles (37 +/- 5.5%). The effect of lactate was stereospecific because microinjections of the isomer D-lactate (0.5 mol/l, pH 2) did not affect the arteriolar caliber (P = 0.63). Perfusion of the eye with the cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor indomethacin, through cannulization of the sublingual artery, caused a generalized reversible arteriolar vasoconstriction of 51 +/- 9.8% but did not inhibit the segmental vasodilator effect of locally microinjected L-lactate. CONCLUSIONS: It is known that acute hypoxia in the isolated retina causes an increase in lactate production. In the intact eye, there is a retinal vasodilation, which is not inhibited by indomethacin. Hence, it was concluded that retinal, but not blood, lactate is a possible mediator of the acute hypoxia-induced vasodilation.
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