Awareness and filling-in of the human blind spot: linking psychophysics with retinal topography.

abstract：:Determination of intraocular antibody synthesis against certain microorganisms is a diagnostic aid in identifying the causative agent in clinical uveitis. Little is known, however, concerning the kinetics and specificity of antibodies produced during intraocular inflammation. To investigate this subject we induced uve...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： van der Voet JC,Liem A,Otto AJ,Kijlstra A

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

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：:We have investigated suprathreshold contrast sensitivity and binocular interactions in strabismic and anisometropic amblyopes using a reaction time paradigm. For every spatial frequency, reaction time increased as the grating contrast decreased. At all spatial frequencies and contrast values the reaction times using t...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Levi DM,Harwerth RS,Manny RE

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Strabismus may be associated with an asymmetry of monocular horizontal optokinetic nystagmus (OKN). It is unclear whether OKN asymmetries are associated with deficiency in binocular and/or stereovision. In the current study, patients with different degrees of binocularity were investigated. METHODS:OKN was exa...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Valmaggia C,Proudlock F,Gottlob I

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate whether visual deficits in children with infantile spasm (IS) are the result of seizure activity or of treatment with the anticonvulsant drug vigabatrin (VGB). METHODS:Vision function was determined in three experiments by determining peak contrast sensitivity (CS) and grating acuity (GA) with t...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Mirabella G,Morong S,Buncic JR,Snead OC,Logan WJ,Weiss SK,Abdolell M,Westall CA

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the physiological characteristics of the macula in patients with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease during the convalescent stage with specific reference to the kinetics of foveal cone photopigment regeneration. METHODS:Six eyes of three patients at the convalescent stage of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Okamoto Y,Miyake Y,Horio N,Takakuwa H,Yamamoto E,Terasaki H

更新日期：2004-01-01 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:Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness, yet pertinent animal models are uncommon. The sand rat (Psammomys obesus), exhibiting diet-induced metabolic syndrome, might constitute a relevant model. METHODS:Adult P. obesus (n = 39) were maintained in captivity for 4 to 7 months and fed either veg...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Saïdi T,Mbarek S,Omri S,Behar-Cohen F,Chaouacha-Chekir RB,Hicks D

更新日期：2011-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) die as a result of axonal injury in a variety of optic neuropathies, including glaucoma. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) act as intracellular signaling molecules and initiate apoptosis in nerve growth factor-deprived sympathetic neurons and axotomized RGCs. Determination of the role ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Schlieve CR,Lieven CJ,Levin LA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The structure of collagen lamellae in the anterior stroma of the human cornea is thought to be an important determinant of corneal rigidity. The three-dimensional structure of such collagen lamellae in normal human corneas was examined. METHODS:The anterior portion of 27 normal human corneas was obtained from ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Morishige N,Takagi Y,Chikama T,Takahara A,Nishida T

更新日期：2011-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a recently discovered, amidated 36 amino acid residue neuropeptide present in many but not all sympathetic noradrenergic neurons. In the guinea-pig eye, NPY immunoreactive fibers were found to have the same distribution as noradrenergic fibers except that there were fewer at the iris dilator, i...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Bruun A,Ehinger B,Sundler F,Tornqvist K,Uddman R

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To test the association between elevated proportions of CD1c+ myeloid dendritic cells (mDCs) and disease activation/reactivation in noninfectious uveitis. METHODS:Noninfectious uveitis patients (n = 89) and healthy controls (n = 111) were recruited. The proportion of CD1c+ mDCs in the total dendritic cell (DC)...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Chen P,Urzua CA,Knickelbein JE,Kim JS,Li Z,Hannes S,Kuo D,Chaigne-Delalande B,Armbrust K,Tucker W,Liu B,Agrón E,Sen HN,Nussenblatt RB

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the association of 25-hydroxyvitamin D with AMD. METHODS:A population-based, cross-sectional study using a nationwide, systemic-stratified, multistage-clustered sampling method involved a total of 17,045 subjects older than 40 years who participated in the Korean National Health and Nutrition Ex...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Kim EC,Han K,Jee D

更新日期：2014-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate spatial anisotropies in the peripheral visual field of axially myopic eyes, in an attempt to distinguish between models of isotropic and anisotropic ocular stretching. METHODS:Stimuli consisted of two high-contrast Gaussian patches presented in one of four orientations (90 degrees, 180 degrees, ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Vera-Diaz FA,McGraw PV,Strang NC,Whitaker D

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a method to isolate human iris microvascular endothelial cells (HIECs) for exploring their constitutive and inflammatory agent-modulated expression of intercellular adhesion molecules (ICAM)-1 and -2, vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM)-1, and E-selectin. METHODS:Endothelial cells from collagenas...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Silverman MD,Zamora DO,Pan Y,Texeira PV,Planck SR,Rosenbaum JT

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate functional abnormalities in mutations in the peripherin (RDS) gene leading to different clinical types of autosomal dominant retinal disease--macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. METHODS:Patients from two families, one with a mutation in codon 167 (Gly167Asp) leading to macular degener...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Kemp CM,Jacobson SG,Cideciyan AV,Kimura AE,Sheffield VC,Stone EM

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Patients with sickle cell disease have elevated circulating levels of cytokines including tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha. TNF-alpha stimulates expression by endothelial cells of adhesion molecules, including vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM) 1. Others have demonstrated that VLA-4 (alpha(4)beta(1)), a li...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Lutty GA,Taomoto M,Cao J,McLeod DS,Vanderslice P,McIntyre BW,Fabry ME,Nagel RL

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the impact of zinc finger E-box binding homeobox 1 (ZEB1) gene mutations associated with posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy 3 (PPCD3) and Fuchs' endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD). METHODS:Thirteen of the 27 previously reported ZEB1 truncating mutations associated with PPCD3 and the six previ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Chung DW,Frausto RF,Ann LB,Jang MS,Aldave AJ

更新日期：2014-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In the Gbeta5(-/-) mouse, the electroretinogram (ERG) b-wave is absent, and the R7 subfamily of regulators of G protein signaling (RGS), which includes RGS6, -7, -9, and -11, is downregulated. Mutant mouse strains deficient in RGS7 or -11 were characterized, and the SG711 strain which is deficient in both prote...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Chen FS,Shim H,Morhardt D,Dallman R,Krahn E,McWhinney L,Rao A,Gold SJ,Chen CK

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Suppression in amblyopia may be an unequal form of normal interocular suppression or a distinct pathophysiology. To explore this issue, we examined the orientation tuning and contrast dependence of continuous flash suppression (CFS) in adults with amblyopia and visually normal controls. Methods:Nine patients (...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Gao TY,Ledgeway T,Lie AL,Anstice N,Black J,McGraw PV,Thompson B

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the importance of lens epithelial cell death in age-related cataract. To determine whether the large percentage of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT)-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling (TUNEL)-positive lens epithelial cells previously reported in human capsulotomy specimens results from apopto...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Harocopos GJ,Alvares KM,Kolker AE,Beebe DC

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The phenotype of specialized cells arises, in part, from their characteristic gene expression patterns. Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are of wide interest in neuroscience and die in glaucoma and other optic neuropathies. In this study the genes expressed by RGCs were profiled by expressed sequence tag (EST) ana...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Farkas RH,Qian J,Goldberg JL,Quigley HA,Zack DJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To characterize the reactions of retinal glial cells (astrocytes and Müller cells) to retinal injury in mice that lack glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and vimentin (GFAP-/-Vim-/-) and to determine the role of glial cells in retinal detachment (RD)-induced photoreceptor degeneration. METHODS:RD was induc...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Nakazawa T,Takeda M,Lewis GP,Cho KS,Jiao J,Wilhelmsson U,Fisher SK,Pekny M,Chen DF,Miller JW

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine protective properties of recombinant TCR ligands (RTLs) as a new treatment for experimental autoimmune anterior uveitis (AU). RTLs comprise the rat RT1.B beta1alpha1 domains, linked either to the guinea pig MBP69-89 peptide (RTL201), to the corresponding rat MBP69-89 peptide (RTL200), or to the car...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Adamus G,Burrows GG,Vandenbark AA,Offner H

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate symptoms, signs, and the levels of 16 tears inflammatory mediators of dry eye (DE) patients exposed to an environment simulating an in-flight air cabin in an environmental chamber. METHODS:Twenty DE patients were exposed to controlled environment simulating an in-flight airplane cabin (simulated in...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Tesón M,González-García MJ,López-Miguel A,Enríquez-de-Salamanca A,Martín-Montañez V,Benito MJ,Mateo ME,Stern ME,Calonge M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study was conducted to determine whether there were significant differences in choroidal thickness, contrast, outer choroidal vessel (OCV), and choroidal-scleral junction (CSJ) visualization in inverted versus upright spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). METHODS:Images were captured on B...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Lin P,Mettu PS,Pomerleau DL,Chiu SJ,Maldonado R,Stinnett S,Toth CA,Farsiu S,Mruthyunjaya P

更新日期：2012-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The susceptibility of Candida albicans to topical amphotericin B and natamycin was evaluated in a model of stromal keratitis in Dutch-belted rabbits and compared with minimal inhibitory concentrations in vitro. Treatment was delayed 24 hr to allow invasive disease to occur and was then continued for 5 days. Ten strain...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： O'Day DM,Ray WA,Robinson RD,Head WS,Savage AM

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the efficacy of an endoscopic vitrectomy in Seoul-type keratoprosthesis (S-Kpro) exchange procedures. METHODS:Nine S-Kpro-implanted rabbit eyes were enrolled in the S-Kpro exchange. Six eyes underwent an antecedent vitrectomy by an endoscopic system and then the S-Kpro exchange (endoscopy group)...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Lee SM,Kim MK,Oh JY,Heo JW,Shin MS,Lee MS,Wee WR,Lee JH

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady-state visual evoked potentials were elicited by the appearance/disappearance of sinusoidal gratings of varying spatial frequency for both eyes of amblyopic subjects. The amblyopic eyes showed reduced responses and a phase shift relative to the nonamblyopic eyes across a wide range of spatial frequencies. Both t...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Levi DM,Harwerth RS

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Synthesis of keratan sulfate (KS) relies on coordinated action of multiple enzymes, including the N-acetylglucosamine-transferring enzyme, β-1,3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase-7 (β3GnT7). A mouse model deficient in β3GnT7 was developed to explore structural changes in KS and the extracellular matrix (ECM; i.e....

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Littlechild SL,Young RD,Caterson B,Yoshida H,Yamazaki M,Sakimura K,Quantock AJ,Akama TO

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00