Lovastatin inhibits TGF-beta-induced myofibroblast transdifferentiation in human tenon fibroblasts.

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the optical coherence tomographic (OCT) correlates of two previously described angiographic subtypes of occult choroidal neovascularization (CNV). METHODS:We retrospectively analyzed 17 consecutive patients with previously untreated occult CNV who underwent both fluorescein angiography (FA) and volu...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Hariri A,Heussen FM,Nittala MG,Sadda SR

更新日期：2013-12-09 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:Ocular lens fiber cell elongation, differentiation, and compaction are associated with extensive reorganization of cell adhesive interactions and cytoskeleton; however, our knowledge of proteins critical to these events is still evolving. This study characterizes the distribution pattern of neuronal-specific α-...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Maddala R,Rao PV

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphatic metabolite content of specific anatomic regions within the crystalline lens was determined by phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance analyses performed on tissue perchloric acid (PCA) extracts. Anatomically distinct zones each were dissected from five sets of 10 porcine lenses, isolated, and frozen in...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Greiner JV,Kopp SJ,Glonek T

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cataracts in cultured rabbit lenses were produced by elevation of internal calcium. Experimental procedures were successful in increasing levels of total and bound Ca++, often without significant changes in sodium, potassium, or water content. Although the excess in calcium was predominantly associated with water-solu...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Hightower KR,Reddy VN

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study the distribution and predominant orientations of fibrillar collagen at different depths throughout the entire thickness of the human cornea. This information will form the basis of a full three-dimensional reconstruction of the preferred orientations of corneal lamellae. METHODS:Femtosecond laser tech...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Abahussin M,Hayes S,Knox Cartwright NE,Kamma-Lorger CS,Khan Y,Marshall J,Meek KM

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vestibulo-ocular reflex of normal monkeys was tested by a modified Bárány spinning test (B-test) and by sinosoidal rotation. The two tests gave concordant estimates of the time constant and corner frequency. Deviation from concordance was caused largely by modification of the reflex during the testing procedures. ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Blair S,Gavin M

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine, with the use of optical coherence tomography (OCT), the peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness among patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) of different degrees of disease severity. METHODS:One eye in each of 25 RP patients was included. All patients underwent complete ocular e...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Walia S,Fishman GA,Edward DP,Lindeman M

更新日期：2007-10-01 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 assess the impact of glaucoma-related vision loss on measures of out-loud reading, including time to say individual words, interval time between consecutive words, lexical errors, skipped words, and repetitions. METHODS:Glaucoma subjects (n = 63) with bilateral visual field loss and glaucoma suspect control...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Mathews PM,Rubin GS,McCloskey M,Salek S,Ramulu PY

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Previous studies have demonstrated a role for the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) in the development and maintenance of the choroidal vasculature, suggesting that RPE serves a trophic role for the choroidal vessels. The goal of this study was to determine the expression pattern of vascular endothelial growth f...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Saint-Geniez M,Maldonado AE,D'Amore PA

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Patients with diabetes mellitus are reported to have ocular surface defects, impaired ocular surface barrier function, and a higher incidence of corneal and conjunctival infections. Tight junctions are critical for ocular surface barrier function. The present study was designed to investigate the effect of high...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Alfuraih S,Barbarino A,Ross C,Shamloo K,Jhanji V,Zhang M,Sharma A

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To explore factors affecting the glaucoma diagnostic capability of macular thickness and circumpapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (cRNFL) thickness as determined by spectral domain-optical coherence tomography. METHODS:Area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) discriminating h...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Na JH,Sung KR,Baek S,Sun JH,Lee Y

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Recent studies suggest that photoreceptor cells regulate local inflammation in the retina in diabetes. The purpose of this study was to determine if photoreceptor cells themselves produce inflammatory proteins in diabetes and if soluble factors released by photoreceptors in elevated glucose induce inflammatory ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Tonade D,Liu H,Kern TS

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare visual evoked potentials (VEPs) and contrast sensitivity in adults with early- or late-onset strabismic amblyopia. METHODS:Twelve adults with early- and 12 with late-onset strabismic amblyopia with similar ranges of visual acuity were studied. Pattern-onset VEPs to 30-minute checks were recorded at ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Davis AR,Sloper JJ,Neveu MM,Hogg CR,Morgan MJ,Holder GE

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:RPE65-associated Leber congenital amaurosis (RPE65-LCA) is a progressive severe retinal dystrophy with early profound dysfunction of rod photoreceptors followed by progressive cone photoreceptor degeneration. We aim to provide detailed information about how cone dysfunction affects color discrimination. Method...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Kumaran N,Ripamonti C,Kalitzeos A,Rubin GS,Bainbridge JWB,Michaelides M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Deposition of the macular pigment carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin in the human retina occurs early in life. In this study, we examined the interrelationships of maternal carotenoid status and newborn infant macular pigment levels and systemic carotenoid status. As a secondary measure, we also evaluated the ef...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Henriksen BS,Chan G,Hoffman RO,Sharifzadeh M,Ermakov IV,Gellermann W,Bernstein PS

更新日期：2013-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:RPE65 has been shown to be essential for the production of 11-cis retinal by the retinal pigment epithelium. Mutations in RPE65 are known to be associated with severe forms of early-onset retinal dystrophy. This project was designed to determine the amount of regenerable opsin in Rpe65-/- mice during developmen...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Rohrer B,Goletz P,Znoiko S,Ablonczy Z,Ma JX,Redmond TM,Crouch RK

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy and macropinocytosis are processes that are vital for cellular homeostasis, and help cells respond to stress and take up large amounts of material, respectively. The limbal and corneal epithelia have the machinery necessary to carry out both processes; however, autophagy and macropinocytosis are relatively u...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Peng H,Park JK,Lavker RM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Activation of complement has been implicated as one of the major causes of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Evidence is accumulating for a role of complement in other retinal diseases, such as diabetic retinopathy and proliferative vitreoretinopathy. Because of the paucity of animal models that directly ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Cashman SM,Desai A,Ramo K,Kumar-Singh R

更新日期：2011-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Hyperreflective foci (HFs) are observable within the neurosensory retina in diabetic macular edema (DME) using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). HFs have also been seen in wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), although the origin is still unknown; however, they reduced significantly d...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Framme C,Schweizer P,Imesch M,Wolf S,Wolf-Schnurrbusch U

更新日期：2012-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:There are two human 15-lipoxygenases (LOX), 15-LOX-1 and -2, which convert arachidonic acid to 15S-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (15S-HETE). The presence of both 15-LOXs in the human cornea prompted this study to delineate their roles in the human corneal epithelium. METHODS:Human corneal epithelia from donor c...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Chang MS,Schneider C,Roberts RL,Shappell SB,Haselton FR,Boeglin WE,Brash AR

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroquine was administered intramuscularly 5 days a week to rhesus monkeys for as long as 4 1/2 years. No clinical, fluorescein angiographic, or electrophysiological evidence of retinal damage was observed. Yet chloroquine/chloroquine byproduct analysis of the ocular tissues revealed an enormous binding capacity of ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Rosenthal AR,Kolb H,Bergsma D,Huxsoll D,Hopkins JL

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual effects of carbon disulfide exposure were studied in macaque monkeys with measurements of visual thresholds, fluorescein angiography and fundus photography. Five monkeys were exposed by inhalation for 6 hr a day, 5 days a week to 256 ppm carbon disulfide (CS2). The motor dysfunction observed in these monkey...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Merigan WH,Wood RW,Zehl D,Eskin TA

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:IFT81, a core component of the IFT-B complex, involved in the bidirectional transport of ciliary proteins, has been recently implicated in syndromic ciliopathies. However, none of the IFT-B core complex proteins have been associated with nonsyndromic retinal dystrophies. Given the importance of ciliary transpor...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Dharmat R,Liu W,Ge Z,Sun Z,Yang L,Li Y,Wang K,Thomas K,Sui R,Chen R

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of using Cerenkov luminescence imaging (CLI) to facilitate plaque placement during episcleral brachytherapy of intraocular tumors. METHODS:Ruthenium-106 (Ru-106) decays to rhodium-106, which in turn emits high-energy beta particles. When the electrons ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Axelsson J,Krohn J

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to determine whether messenger RNA coding for hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), HGF receptor (MET), keratinocyte growth factor (KGF), KGF receptor, and fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptor-2 were produced in primary cultures of human corneal epithelial, stromal fibroblast, and end...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Wilson SE,Walker JW,Chwang EL,He YG

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We described the optical coherence tomography (OCT) features of diabetic macular ischemia (DMI), and correlate these findings with visual acuity (VA). METHODS:Clinical and imaging data were collected from 100 patients with type 2 diabetes. Qualitative grading of DMI severity was determined according to criteri...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Sim DA,Keane PA,Fung S,Karampelas M,Sadda SR,Fruttiger M,Patel PJ,Tufail A,Egan CA

更新日期：2014-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Recoverin has been identified as a target autoantigen for antirecoverin antibodies found in the sera of some patients with cancer-associated retinopathy. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of antirecoverin antibodies in cancer-associated retinopathy. METHODS:Human, rat, and rabbit antirecoverin ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Adamus G,Machnicki M,Seigel GM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo conjunctival epithelial healing in albino rabbits was investigated by light microscopy following both n-heptanol and trephined conjunctival wounding. Reepithelialization occurred faster following n-heptanol treatment (3 days) versus trephination (6-7 days). No goblet cells were present in the migrating epithel...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Geggel HS,Friend J,Thoft RA

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00