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Electroretinographic study of spontaneously diabetic Torii rats

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Spontaneously diabetic Torii (SDT) rats are an inbred strain of rats with a non-obese type 2 diabetes mellitus that were isolated from an outbred colony of Sprague–Dawley (SD) rats. Electroretinograms (ERGs) were recorded from SDT and SD (controls) rats at 10- and 44-weeks-of-age to determine their retinal function. The amplitudes and implicit times of the ERGs of the right and left eyes were not significantly different indicating that the intra-individual variation was small. Both amplitudes and implicit times of the ERGs in the SDT rats were not significantly different from those of SD rats at 10-weeks-of-age. At 44-weeks-of-age, however, the a- and b-waves and the oscillatory potentials were significantly reduced with prolonged implicit times in the SDT rats compared to SD rats. These depressed ERGs may reflect vascular and neuronal damage throughout the retina as are seen in the advanced stages of human diabetic retinopathy. Thus, the SDT rat can be used to study the retinal physiology of diabetic retinopathy.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical College, 2-7 Daigaku-machi Takatsuki, Osaka, 569-8686, Japan

    Takashi Okuno, Hidehiro Oku, Tetsuya Sugiyama & Tsunehiko Ikeda

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Okuno, T., Oku, H., Sugiyama, T. et al. Electroretinographic study of spontaneously diabetic Torii rats. Doc Ophthalmol 117, 191–196 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10633-008-9122-0

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