Abstract
The aim of the present study was to compare, in healthy human volunteers (male and female), the corneal contact time of various formulations, each containing one viscosity enhancer from the following list: a phase-transition system (gellan gum, Gelrite), a heteropolysaccharide (xanthan gum) and currently used polymers hydroxyethylcellulose, hydroxypropylmethylcellulose, or poly(vinyl alcohol). These different solutions were compared to a reference solution containing no viscosity enhancers. The corneal contact time of the formulations was evaluated over more than 20 minutes by gamma scintigraphy using Technetium-99m (Tc-99m DTPA) as a radioactive label. An eyedrop containing pilocarpine salts (25 microliters) was instilled in one eye only. Each volunteer received 4 formulations, the interval between the instillations being one week. The protocol has been approved by the relevant institutional human experimentation committee. One minute after instillation, only 23% of the reference solution remained on the ocular surface, whereas the novel formulations maintained, respectively, 77% (xanthan gum) or 82% (Gelrite) of the tracer on the ocular surface. Twenty-one min after instillation, 12% (reference solution), 25% (xanthan gum sol...Continue Reading
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