Prolactins are natural inhibitors of angiogenesis in the retina.

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the efficacy and safety of naked plasmid gene therapy to the corneal stroma and epithelium. METHODS:Naked plasmid DNA was injected under pressure into the cornea of mice. The expression of genes coding for beta galactosidase (beta-gal), enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP), vascular endotheli...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Stechschulte SU,Joussen AM,von Recum HA,Poulaki V,Moromizato Y,Yuan J,D'Amato RJ,Kuo C,Adamis AP

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Asymmetry in disease progression between left and right eyes can occur in Stargardt disease (STGD1), and this needs to be considered in novel therapeutic trials with a fellow-eye paired controlled design. This study investigated the inter-eye discordance of best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and progression of...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Lambertus S,Bax NM,Groenewoud JM,Cremers FP,van der Wilt GJ,Klevering BJ,Theelen T,Hoyng CB

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe the evolution of retinal thickness in eyes affected with acute anterior uveitis (AAU) in the course of follow-up and to assess its correlation with severity of inflammatory activity in the anterior chamber. METHODS:72 eyes (affected and fellow eyes) of 36 patients presenting with HLA-B27-related ac...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Balaskas K,Ballabeni P,Guex-Crosier Y

更新日期：2012-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an ophthalmic and anthropometric survey of two free-breeding rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) populations, intraocular pressure (IOP) of 114 animals was measured under ketamine catalepsia with the use of a floating-tip pneumatonometer. The mean IOP of the 102 animals included in the main analyses was 14.9 +/-...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Bito LZ,Merritt SQ,DeRousseau CJ

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the possible presence of a major gene determining susceptibility to cortical cataract. METHODS:The percentage of the lens area involved with cortical opacity, summed over both eyes, was evaluated in 1275 individuals from the Beaver Dam Eye Study. After adjusting for the effects of age and sex, these...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Heiba IM,Elston RC,Klein BE,Klein R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse retina has been used extensively over the past decades to study both physiologic and pathologic angiogenesis. Over time, various mouse retina models have evolved into well-characterized and robust tools for in vivo angiogenesis research. This article is a review of the angiogenic development of the mouse ret...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Stahl A,Connor KM,Sapieha P,Chen J,Dennison RJ,Krah NM,Seaward MR,Willett KL,Aderman CM,Guerin KI,Hua J,Löfqvist C,Hellström A,Smith LE

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess changes in rod and cone visual functions in a mouse model of Fundus albipunctatus with disrupted 11-cis-retinol dehydrogenase (RDH) genes after pharmacologic treatment with an artificial retinal chromophore. METHODS:Retinoid levels and photoreceptor functions of Rdh5-/-Rdh11-/- mice at a variety of l...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Maeda A,Maeda T,Palczewski K

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGFR2) plays a key role in VEGF-induced angiogenesis. The goal of this project was to test the hypothesis that editing genomic VEGFR2 loci using the technology of clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated DNA endonuclease (Cas)9 in St...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Huang X,Zhou G,Wu W,Ma G,D'Amore PA,Mukai S,Lei H

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Human tear film stability decreases with increasing age. In this study, the changes in meibum composition were measured in search of markers of tear film instability. METHODS:(1)H NMR nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of 43 normal donors aged 1 to 88 years were acquired. RESULTS:Compared with meibum fr...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Borchman D,Foulks GN,Yappert MC,Milliner SE

更新日期：2012-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To quantify protein changes in the morphologically distinct remodeling zone (RZ) and adjacent regions of the human lens outer cortex using spatially directed quantitative proteomics. METHODS:Lightly fixed human lens sections were deparaffinized and membranes labeled with fluorescent wheat germ agglutinin (WGA-...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Wenke JL,McDonald WH,Schey KL

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postmitochondrial supernatant, cytosol, and microsomes were exposed to near-ultraviolet light and assayed for incorporation of (3H)leucine. The results indicate that near-ultraviolet light decreased the incorporation of radioactivity into the aminoacyl-tRNA fraction and into proteins. This effect depended on the wavel...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Matuk Y,Lou P,Parker JA

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Multidrug resistance protein 4 (MRP4) effluxes a wide variety of endogenous compounds, including cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), and is exclusively expressed in vascular endothelial cells (ECs) of the retina. This study aimed to investigate the role of MRP4 in retinal vascular development. METHODS:The r...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Matsumiya W,Kusuhara S,Hayashibe K,Maruyama K,Kusuhara H,Tagami M,Schuetz JD,Negi A

更新日期：2012-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine whether cultured retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells implanted in the subconjunctival space induce an immune response against autoantigens and whether an active downregulation is achieved by RPE grafts placed in the anterior chamber and within the subretinal space. METHODS:Cultured RPE cells fr...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Grisanti S,Ishioka M,Kosiewicz M,Jiang LQ

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal leukocyte velocity and density were estimated using blue-field entoptic imaging techniques in a controlled double-masked study to determine the relative effects of oxygen and carbon dioxide on perimacular hemodynamics in single eyes of ten normal human subjects. Mild hypoxia (inspiration of 16% O2) did not sig...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Sponsel WE,DePaul KL,Zetlan SR

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the effect of bimatoprost on intraocular pressure in the prostaglandin FP receptor knockout mouse. METHODS:The IOP response to a single 1.2-microg (4 microL) dose of bimatoprost was measured in the treated and untreated fellow eyes of homozygote (FP+/+, n = 9) and heterozygote (FP+/-, n = 10) FP-k...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Crowston JG,Lindsey JD,Morris CA,Wheeler L,Medeiros FA,Weinreb RN

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a progressive disease with multifactorial etiology. There is a need to identify clinical features that are harbingers of advanced disease. We evaluated morphologic features of the retina and choroid on optical coherence tomography (OCT) to determine if they predict prog...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Ferrara D,Silver RE,Louzada RN,Novais EA,Collins GK,Seddon JM

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:It is well documented that grafting of cells in the subretinal space of Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) rats limits deterioration of vision and loss of photoreceptors if performed early in postnatal life. What is unclear is whether cells introduced later, when photoreceptor degeneration is already advanced, can...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Wang S,Lu B,Girman S,Holmes T,Bischoff N,Lund RD

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the range of macular pigment optical density (MPOD) in a healthy group of young adults of South Asian origin; to investigate whether any dietary factors or personal characteristics were related to intersubject variations in MPOD; and to compare the mean MPOD of the South Asian group with the mean MPOD...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Howells O,Eperjesi F,Bartlett H

更新日期：2013-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Mutations of the CHM gene underlie the X-linked chorioretinal degeneration choroideremia (CHM). The affected gene product, Rab Escort Protein (REP)1, mediates the posttranslational prenyl modification of Rab GTPases. In patients with CHM, the related REP2 partially compensates for the loss of function of REP1. ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Moosajee M,Tulloch M,Baron RA,Gregory-Evans CY,Pereira-Leal JB,Seabra MC

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Diabetic complications are associated with hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of both glucose deprivation and hyperglycemia on the induction of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and the subsequent activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR) that results...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Mulhern ML,Madson CJ,Danford A,Ikesugi K,Kador PF,Shinohara T

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The objective of this study was to determine whether alteration in mucins could be detected in patients with dry eye symptoms by using the monoclonal antibody H185, which recognizes carbohydrate epitopes on mucin molecules. METHODS:Immunohistochemistry and immunoelectron microscopy was used to examine binding ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Danjo Y,Watanabe H,Tisdale AS,George M,Tsumura T,Abelson MB,Gipson IK

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In the rabbit iris sphincter muscle, sodium nitroprusside (SNP), a nitric oxide (NO) donor, inhibits cholinergic contraction but does not affect tachykinergic contraction in vitro. The objectives of the current study were to clarify the mechanism for the different responsiveness to NO in cholinergic and tachyki...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Chuman H,Chuman T,Nao-i N,Sawada A,Yamamoto R,Kobayashi H,Wada A

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the effects of diabetes mellitus on corneal structure and function. METHODS:The authors measured endothelial permeability to fluorescein and corneal deswelling for 7.5 hours after 2 hours of hypoxic contact lens wear in 20 patients with diabetes who had nonproliferative retinopathy and 21 age-matched...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Weston BC,Bourne WM,Polse KA,Hodge DO

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate a photographic procedure for reflectometry of the topographic distribution of macular pigment density in normal pediatric subjects. METHODS:Digitized blue (480 nm) and green (540 nm) photographic images were aligned and subtracted to generate optical density difference maps. An 8 degrees x 8 degree...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Bour LJ,Koo L,Delori FC,Apkarian P,Fulton AB

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Perinatal inflammatory stress in preterm babies is associated with increased rates of severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and adverse neurological dysfunction. In this study, we set out to determine the consequences of severe systemic inflammatory stress on developmental retinal vascularization and evaluate...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Tremblay S,Miloudi K,Chaychi S,Favret S,Binet F,Polosa A,Lachapelle P,Chemtob S,Sapieha P

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The transdifferentiation of Tenon fibroblasts to myofibroblasts is a pivotal step in filtering bleb scarring. It is mediated by the cytokine TGF-beta, Rho-dependent contractility, and cell-matrix interactions in an interdependent fashion. HMG-CoA-reductase inhibitors (statins) have been shown to inhibit Rho-GTP...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Meyer-Ter-Vehn T,Katzenberger B,Han H,Grehn F,Schlunck G

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:To investigate the effect of the vascular adhesion protein-1 (VAP-1) inhibitor RTU-1096 on retinal morphologic changes and ocular inflammation after retinal laser photocoagulation in mice. Methods:C57BL/6JJcl mice were fed a diet containing RTU-1096, a specific inhibitor for VAP-1, or a control diet ad libitum...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Matsuda T,Noda K,Murata M,Kawasaki A,Kanda A,Mashima Y,Ishida S

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to investigate the repeatability of manual measurements of choroidal thickness in healthy subjects imaged on spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) using the enhanced depth imaging (EDI) technique. METHODS:Fifty consecutive, healthy, young, adult volunteers with no known e...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Rahman W,Chen FK,Yeoh J,Patel P,Tufail A,Da Cruz L

更新日期：2011-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the interobserver agreement for the detection of optical coherence tomography (OCT) features of disease activity in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). METHODS:This was a cross-sectional agreement study in which grading of OCT line scans from patients with nAMD was...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Patel PJ,Browning AC,Chen FK,Da Cruz L,Tufail A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the lens has been shown to have the capacity to respond to insulin in vitro, little is known concerning the biochemical relationships of insulin to the lens in vivo. Therefore we have measured insulin in the aqueous humor of rabbits by a sensitive radioimmunoassay after paracentesis and feeding. The insulin c...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Coulter JB 3rd,Engelke JA,Eaton DK

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00