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Stress raises intraocular pressure in rabbits
If you have been reading FitEyes.com, you already know we have documented, through thousands of intraocular pressure measurements in real life situations, that stress can raise eye pressure in glaucoma patients. I just came across this abstract of an older study done in Japan that is of interest in this regard.
Purpose. To test whether encagement and volume load as stressors influence the intraocular pressure in rabbits.
Method. Rabbits were encaged for an hour in a horizontally-plastic tube with an internal diameter of 13.2cm and a length of 33.2cm. After the encagement, rabbits received a rapid intraveonus drip infusion of 5% glucose solution, 20 ml per kilogram of body weight, for 5-6 minutes. All experiments were performed at the same time of day.
