Abstract：
:The purpose of this study was to quantify how the elastic modulus of the ex vivo iris changes following stimulation by pilocarpine (PILO), phenylephrine (PE), and tropicamide (TROP). Irides (n = 20) were dissected from porcine eyes within 4 h post-mortem and tested uniaxially. Either the entire iris or sector thereof was used. The samples were stretched up to 40% Green strain. The radial modulus was calculated from the linear portion of the stress-strain curve, and the azimuthal modulus was fitted to a model treating the iris as a collection of circular elastic bands. One of the three drugs (n = 6 or 7) of interest was added (80 microg/ml) to the bath surrounding the tissue, and the test was repeated. Changes in pupil diameter of free-floating samples and isometric force of mounted samples confirmed that the tissue was responsive to the drugs. The untreated iris modulus for cut sections in radial extension was 4.0 +/- 0.9 kPa (mean +/- s.d., n = 20), and treated iris modulus was 7.7 +/- 2.0 kPa (PILO, n = 7), 6.9 +/- 2.2 kPa (PE, n = 6), and 8.4 +/- 1.7 kPa (TROP, n = 7). Intact irides (n = 10) gave similar trends but values approximately 25% higher, presumably due to support from the nominally unloaded tissue. The azimuthal modulus of the untreated iris was 2.97 +/- 1.3 kPa (n = 5), and that of the treated iris (PILO) was 5.34 +/- 2.1 kPa. Although PILO, PE, and TROP work by different mechanisms, all three had similar results - an increase of modulus by a factor of two. These results suggest that in most normal situations the iris remains compliant at all pupil diameters.
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Exp Eye Resjournal_title
Experimental eye researchauthors
Whitcomb JE,Barnett VA,Olsen TW,Barocas VHdoi
10.1016/j.exer.2009.04.014subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-10-01 00:00:00pages
456-61issue
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0014-4835issn
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89pub_type
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