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Facilitation by imidazole of the aqueous flare response toα-melanocyte stimulating hormone

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MSH, like traumata to the eye, cause a permeability disturbance in rabbits, with protein leakage into the aqueous. The MSH effect was enormously increased by instillation of imidazole or pilocarpine. The MSH effect seems to engage a different mechanism than the prostaglandin-dependent action of other agents.

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  1. Department of Experimental Ophthalmology, University Eye Clinic, S-221 85, Lund, (Sweden)

    Elisabeth Bengtsson & C. E. T. Krakau

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Bengtsson, E., Krakau, C.E.T. Facilitation by imidazole of the aqueous flare response toα-melanocyte stimulating hormone. Experientia 31, 1054–1056 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02326956

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