Calcium-induced opacification is dependent upon lens pH
作者:
HightowerKenneth R.,
McCreadyJanet P.,
GoudsmitEsther M.,
期刊:
Current Eye Research
(Taylor Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 6,
issue 12
页码: 1415-1420
ISSN:0271-3683
年代: 1987
DOI:10.3109/02713688709044505
出版商: Taylor&Francis
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The intracellular pH of a normal lens is 6.8 in the cortex and remains unchanged during culture in media buffered at pH 7.2. Incubation of rabbit lenses in calcium enriched media, either at 24°C or 37°C, results in lens opacification provided that the lens pH remains slightly acidic. Opacities are prevented in cultured lenses with an alkaline interior (pH 7.1–7.3) despite the accumulation of calcium (1.3 mM). The mechanism by which an intracellular pH shift from 6.8 to 7.1 prevents opacification in the presence of excess calcium is not known, but does not appear to depend upon the total level of bound calcium. This study provides the first data that opacification caused by calcium is associated with lens pH.
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