Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) anthocyanins modulate heme oxygenase-1 and glutathione S-transferase-pi expression in ARPE-19 cells.

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their inhibitors during the development of retinal neovascularization (NV) in a mouse model. METHODS:A well-characterized murine model of retinal NV was used to study the expression of specific MMPs (MMP-2, MMP-9, and MT1-MMP) and tissue inhibit...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Majka S,McGuire P,Colombo S,Das A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:To compare in vivo lamina cribrosa (LC) strains (deformations) following acute IOP elevation in healthy, glaucoma, and ocular hypertensive subjects. Methods:There were 20 healthy, 20 high-tension primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), 16 primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG), and 20 ocular hypertensive (OHT; with...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Beotra MR,Wang X,Tun TA,Zhang L,Baskaran M,Aung T,Strouthidis NG,Girard MJA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After viewing red vertical stripes and green horizontal stripes, the eye subsequently views white vertical stripes as greenish and white horizontal stripes as pinkish. It has been theorized that this phenomenon, known as the McCollough effect, is related to long-tern adaptation of cells tuned for both color and orient...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Maguire WM,Meyer GE,Baizer JS

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the effectiveness of upper punctal occlusion versus that of lower punctal occlusion in dry eye patients. METHODS:One eye's upper punctum and the contralateral eye's lower punctum were occluded with collagen plugs in 20 dry eye patients. The same procedure was performed in 20 normal subjects. The upp...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Chen F,Wang J,Chen W,Shen M,Xu S,Lu F

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents a comparative description of the acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase activities and their molecular forms in primary cultures of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). Acetylcholinesterase activity increases during differentiation of the cells. Sucrose sedimentation analysis of acetylcholine...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Salceda R,Sánchez G,León-Cázares JM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Orbital eye position and vestibular sensitivity have both been postulated to influence vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) axis direction. The interaction of these factors in unilateral vestibular deafferentation (UVD) was examined. METHODS:Initial VOR direction and magnitude were examined in six normal human subjec...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Crane BT,Tian J,Ishiyama A,Demer JL

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Macrophages are thought to be the first line of defense in many infectious diseases and are present in high numbers in corneas with Acanthamoeba keratitis. Conjunctival macrophage depletion was performed in an animal model of Acanthamoeba infection to determine the importance of macrophages in this disease. ME...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： van Klink F,Taylor WM,Alizadeh H,Jager MJ,van Rooijen N,Niederkorn JY

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to assess qualitatively the expression of adhesion molecules by human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and to study their regulation by inflammatory cytokines. These molecular events and the role played by inflammatory cytokines are important for selective lymphocyte trafficking in...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Platts KE,Benson MT,Rennie IG,Sharrard RM,Rees RC

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Because of its role in cell cycle regulation and apoptosis, p53 may be involved in maintaining the post-mitotic state of the adult eye. To shed light on the role of p53 in retinal development and maintenance, this study investigated the pattern of expression of p53, its family members, and its regulators during...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Vuong L,Brobst DE,Saadi A,Ivanovic I,Al-Ubaidi MR

更新日期：2012-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of the present study was to investigate metabolic changes in different compartments of the rat lens (anterior, nuclear, posterior, and equatorial) after exposure to an acute double threshold dose of ultraviolet-B radiation (UVR-B) by using high-resolution magic angle spinning (HR-MAS) (1)H nuclear m...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Tessem MB,Bathen TF,Löfgren S,Saether O,Mody V,Meyer L,Dong X,Söderberg PG,Midelfart A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To elucidate the role of signals mediated by EphB4 receptor tyrosine kinase and its transmembrane ephrinB2 ligand in corneal lymphatic capillaries. METHODS:To detect expression of ephrinB2 and EphB4 in mouse corneas, immunohistochemistry of flat-mount corneas from 6- to 10-week-old wild-type, Efnb2-lacZ, and E...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Katsuta H,Fukushima Y,Maruyama K,Hirashima M,Nishida K,Nishikawa S,Uemura A

更新日期：2013-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:As in human populations, in which founder mutations have been identified in groups of families, a number of founder mutations have been observed across strains in mice. In this report, we provide a phenotype and genotype survey of three common eye diseases in the collection of JAX mice strains at The Jackson La...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Chang B,Hurd R,Wang J,Nishina P

更新日期：2013-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the effects of topical dorzolamide (a carbonic anhydrase inhibitor) on choroidal and ciliary blood flow and the relationship between ciliary blood flow and aqueous flow. METHODS:The experiments were performed in four groups of pentobarbital-anesthetized rabbits treated with topical dorzolamide (2%...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Reitsamer HA,Bogner B,Tockner B,Kiel JW

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe an instrument called a scanning ocular spectrofluorophotometer (SOSF) that measures fluorescence in a two-dimensional cross-section through the anterior chamber and cornea and provides the ability to change excitation and emission wavelengths rapidly. The output of a xenon arc lamp is filtered by a diffrac...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： McLaren JW,Brubaker RF

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To visualize and quantify the three-dimensional (3D) spatial relationships of the structures of the aqueous outflow system (AOS) within intact enucleated mouse eyes using spectral two-photon microscopy (TPM) techniques. METHODS:Spectral TPM, including two-photon autofluorescence (TPAF) and second-harmonic gene...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Zhang X,Liu N,Mak PU,Pun SH,Vai MI,Masihzadeh O,Kahook MY,Lei TC,Ammar DA

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a cause of anterior and posterior subcapsular cataracts. Central to EMT is the formation of actin stress fibers. Selective targeting of actin stress fiber-associated tropomyosin (Tpm) in epithelial cells may be a means to prevent stress fiber formation and repress l...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Parreno J,Amadeo MB,Kwon EH,Fowler VM

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:The study aimed to provide a quantitative description of aqueous humor dynamics in healthy rat eyes. Methods:One eye of 26 anesthetized adult Brown-Norway rats was cannulated with a needle connected to a perfusion pump and pressure transducer. Pressure-flow data were measured in live and dead eyes by varying p...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Ficarrotta KR,Bello SA,Mohamed YH,Passaglia CL

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the rate and location of visual field (VF) progression before and after detection of disc hemorrhage (DH). METHODS:Disc photographs of consecutive patients with glaucoma with >or=5 SITA-Standard 24-2 VF in either eye were evaluated for the presence and location of DH. Exclusion criteria included di...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： De Moraes CG,Prata TS,Liebmann CA,Tello C,Ritch R,Liebmann JM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biometry performed in patients with unilateral dense congenital cataracts and unilateral complete blepharoptosis did not show a consistent elongation of the involved eye. The antero-posterior axis of the visually deprived eye was longer than that in the normal fellow eye in some but shorter or unchanged in other patie...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： von Noorden GK,Lewis RA

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the role of leukotriene B4 (LTB4) and its receptor BLT1 in the pathogenesis of mouse uveitis. METHODS:Experimental autoimmune uveitis (EAU) was induced in B10RIII mice by immunization of interphotoreceptor retinoid binding protein (IRBP; peptide sequence 161-180) or in C57BL/6 (B6) mice by trans...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Liao T,Ke Y,Shao WH,Haribabu B,Kaplan HJ,Sun D,Shao H

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To test whether triamcinolone acetonide (TA) inhibits angiogenesis induced by IL-6 or VEGF and whether this inhibition is through antagonism of the IL-6 or the VEGF receptor 2. METHODS:A rat cornea micropocket assay was used to initiate IL-6- and VEGF-mediated angiogenesis. The ability of TA or neutralizing VE...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Ebrahem Q,Minamoto A,Hoppe G,Anand-Apte B,Sears JE

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Weak eye muscles can cause ophthalmic disorders, and in particular, strabismus. Exogenous trophic factors such as cardiotrophin (CT)-1 and insulin-like growth factor (IGF) have been shown to increase the contractile force of adult heart and skeletal muscles, respectively. In the current study, the effects of en...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Chen J,von Bartheld CS

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) reportedly improves herpetic stromal keratitis (HSK). Here we studied the role of the amniotic membrane (AM) on macrophages. METHODS:BALB/c mice with necrotizing HSK received an AMT or tarsorrhaphy (TAR) as control. Apoptosis of F4/80+ cells was determined using the anne...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Bauer D,Hennig M,Wasmuth S,Baehler H,Busch M,Steuhl KP,Thanos S,Heiligenhaus A

更新日期：2012-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the responses of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) to electrical stimulation, using electrodes comparable in size to those used in human studies investigating the feasibility of an electronic retinal prosthesis. METHODS:Rabbit retinas were stimulated in vitro with current pulses applied to the inner...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Jensen RJ,Ziv OR,Rizzo JF 3rd

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the involvement of cell-mediated immune responses to Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) in the pathogenesis of HSV-1 induced corneal stromal lesions in mice. Topical corneal (TC) HSV-1 infection induced a vigorous delayed hypersensitivity response, as well as lymphoproliferative and cytotoxic res...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Ksander BR,Hendricks RL

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:One of the difficulties in modeling visual field (VF) data is the sometimes large and correlated measurement errors in the point-wise sensitivity estimates. As these errors affect all locations of the same VF, we propose to model them as global visit effects (GVE). We evaluate this model and show the effect it ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Bryan SR,Eilers PH,Lesaffre EM,Lemij HG,Vermeer KA

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the neural basis of contraction anisocoria and any implications for assessments using pupillary responses, through analysis of topographic variation in amplitudes of direct and consensual pupil responses. METHODS:Direct and consensual pupillary contraction amplitudes were analyzed from six studi...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Carle CF,Maddess T,James AC

更新日期：2011-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Albino rabbits were exposed to repeated microwave irradiations once daily for a month. Clinical examination was carried out for a period up to one year. No changes occurred below 300 mW./cm.2. At and above this level posterior subcapsular iridescence and posterior cortical cataracts were produced. The histologic findi...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Hirsch SE,Appleton B,Fine BS,Brown PV

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine whether resolvin E1 (RvE1), an endogenous oxygenation product of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), induces increases in migration in human corneal epithelial cells (HCECs) and to identify signal pathways mediating this response. METHODS:Migration was measured with the scratch wound assay. Western blot ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Zhang F,Yang H,Pan Z,Wang Z,Wolosin JM,Gjorstrup P,Reinach PS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To demonstrate corneal endothelial (CE) integrity enhanced during eye banking by a brief treatment of human donor corneoscleral explant (explant) with CE autocrine trophic factor vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP). METHODS:Paired explants were used as control versus VIP (10 nM)-treated before storage in corne...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Koh SW,Gloria D,Molloy J

更新日期：2011-07-29 00:00:00