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      Effect of Diethylcarbamazine Citrate and Anti-Inflammatory Drugs on Experimental Onchocercal Punctate Keratitis

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          Subconjunctivally injected Onchocerca lienalis microfilariae (Mf) migrate into the guinea pig cornea, resulting, when the microfilariae die, in punctate stromal opacities resembling those of human onchocerciasis. Administration of diethylcarbamazine citrate (DEC-C) following subconjunctival injection of Mf increased the proportion of dead Mf in the cornea, the number of punctate opacities and the extent of peripheral corneal neovascularization. Betamethasone (a synthetic steroid) and lodoxamide tromethamine (an inhibitor of mediator release from mast cells) inhibited the formation of punctate opacities. Chlorphe-niramine maleate and cimetidine (H1 and H2 histamine receptor antagonists), given together, did not alter the formation of punctate opacities but inhibited the peripheral corneal neovascularization. These observations suggest that mast cell mediators other than histamine may be of importance in the formation of the corneal punctate opacities.

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          Journal
          Journal ID (publisher-id): ORE
          Journal ID (nlm-ta): Ophthalmic Res
          Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0030-3747
          Title: Ophthalmic Research
          Publisher: S. Karger AG
          ISSN (Print): 0030-3747
          ISSN (Electronic): 1423-0259
          Publication date Subscription-year: 1987
          Publication date (Print): 1987
          Publication date (Electronic): 04 December 2009
          Volume: 19
          Issue: 3
          Pages: 129-136
          Affiliations
          aDepartment of Ophthalmology, Scheie Eye Institute, School of Medicine; bDepartment of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., USA
          Article
          Publisher ID: 265484 Other ID: Ophthalmic Res 1987;19:129–136
          DOI: 10.1159/000265484
          PubMed ID: 2443887
          SO-VID: 524a37b1-bf29-426d-bc25-7f5ed0f1282a
          Copyright © © 1987 S. Karger AG, Basel
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          Date received : 08 April 1986
          Date accepted : 03 June 1986
          Page count
          Pages: 8
          Categories
          Subject: Original Paper

          ScienceOpen disciplines: Vision sciences,Ophthalmology & Optometry,Pathology
          Keywords: Onchocerca,Punctate keratitis,Animal model,Betamethasone,Diethylcarbamazine,Lodoxamide
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          ScienceOpen disciplines: Vision sciences, Ophthalmology & Optometry, Pathology
          Keywords: Onchocerca, Punctate keratitis, Animal model, Betamethasone, Diethylcarbamazine, Lodoxamide

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