Figure 1. The preparation of intravitreal
homocysteine-thiolactone (Hcy-T) injection is illustrated in A
and retinal homocystinylation as confirmed by a semi-quantitative
dot-blot analysis is shown in B and C. A: In
each retinal section, the thickness measurement was made at two sites,
located approximately 200 to 300 μm apart, on either side of the optic
nerve. B: Dose-dependent retinal homocystinylation was observed
on day 90 after injection. C: Quantification of relative
intensity (pixels) on dot-blot membranes using an arbitrary unit of
retinal homocystinylation as compared to that of the blank control. The
sample size was 5 in all groups. The error bars indicate standard error
of the means (SEMs).