Abnormalities in Glutamate Metabolism and Excitotoxicity in the Retinal Diseases
Figure 2
Outline of the present experiments. Eyecups preparations were sunken to the bottom of a glass cylinder with different heights. Each glass cylinder was filled with incubation buffer at 30°C for 24 hours. The buffer was bubbled with 95% O2-5% CO2 Hydrostatic pressure at the bottom of the cylinder was calculated to be 10 mmHg and 75 mmHg when a CSF was added to a height of 13.5 cm and 101.2 cm, respectively. Glutamate receptor antagonists or agonists were added to the buffer during some experiments.
