Glaucoma progression in eyes with a history of refractive corneal surgery.

abstract：PURPOSE:This study investigated, using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), inferior oblique muscle (IO) position relative to the adnexa in normal controls, subjects with and without vertical strabismus following lower lid blepharoplasty, and subjects with other hypertropia. METHODS:Sagittal plane MRI was...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Shin SY,Demer JL

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is possible to record a pattern electroretinogram (PERG) of near normal amplitude in a situation when the eye containing the active electrode is occluded. Because PERG recording requires high amplification and sensitive signal retrieval techniques, the electrode in the occluded eye records a distant potential from ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Seiple WH,Siegel IM

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop an imaging technique that maps the distribution of free cystine in the rat lens at subcellular resolution and enables cystine accumulation to be compared with the expression of the cystine-glutamate exchanger (Xc-). METHODS:Whole lenses were fixed, cryoprotected, and then cryosectioned in either an ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Li L,Lim J,Jacobs MD,Kistler J,Donaldson PJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the short- and long-term changes of focal macular electroretinograms (fmERGs) after macular translocation with 360 degrees retinotomy. METHODS:This was a retrospective study. fmERGs were recorded in 19 eyes of 19 consecutive patients who underwent macular translocation with 360 degrees retinotomy f...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Terasaki H,Ishikawa K,Niwa Y,Piao CH,Niwa T,Kondo M,Ito Y,Miyake Y

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Dense deposit disease (DDD) is caused by dysregulation of the alternative pathway of the complement cascade and characterized by electron-dense deposits in the kidney glomerular basement membrane (GBM) and drusen in Bruch's membrane (BrM). Complement factor H (fH) and factor properdin (fP) regulate complement a...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Song D,Mohammed I,Bhuyan R,Miwa T,Williams AL,Gullipalli D,Sato S,Song Y,Dunaief JL,Song WC

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the role of the small guanosine triphosphate (GTP)-binding protein Rho in the migration of corneal epithelial cells. METHODS:The presence of the Rho target proteins Rho-associated coiled coil-containing protein kinase (ROCK)-1 and ROCK-2 in rabbit cornea was examined by immunohistochemical analysi...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Nakamura M,Nagano T,Chikama T,Nishida T

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Folic acid is essential for DNA, RNA, and protein synthesis, and deficiencies in folate can lead to nutritional amblyopia and optic neuropathy. The transport of folate from the choroidal blood supply to the retina is only now beginning to be understood. The reduced-folate transporter was reported recently to be...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Smith SB,Kekuda R,Gu X,Chancy C,Conway SJ,Ganapathy V

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Chronic, subclinical inflammation contributes to the pathogenesis of several ocular diseases, including age-related macular degeneration. Proinflammatory cytokines affect tight junctions in epithelia that lack claudin-19, but in the retinal pigment epithelium claudin-19 predominates. We examined the effects of ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Peng S,Gan G,Rao VS,Adelman RA,Rizzolo LJ

更新日期：2012-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The histological distribution of R-cognin in chick retinas was determined from embryonic day 8 through 13 wk post-hatching by indirect immunofluorescence using polyclonal anticognin. On embryonic day 8, at a developmental stage without distinct retina layers, most of the cells within the tissue exhibited fluorescence....

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Dobi ET,Troccoli NM,Hausman RE

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe refractive status in children and young adults with cerebral palsy (CP) and relate refractive error to standardized measures of type and severity of CP impairment and to ocular dimensions. METHODS:A population-based sample of 118 participants aged 4 to 23 years with CP (mean 11.64 +/- 4.06) and an ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Saunders KJ,Little JA,McClelland JF,Jackson AJ

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The goal of this study was to determine the role of Src family kinases (SFKs) in the development of lens cataract. This question was particularly significant, because these tyrosine kinases mediate the stress pathways known to lead to cataract formation. The experiments were focused on whether the inhibition of...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Zhou J,Menko AS

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the nerve growth factor (NGF) plasma concentration in patients with vernal keratoconjunctivitis and to correlate it with the histopathology and immunopathology of the disease. METHODS:An immunoenzymatic assay was performed to measure NGF plasma levels in patients with vernal keratoconjunctivitis an...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Lambiase A,Bonini S,Bonini S,Micera A,Magrini L,Bracci-Laudiero L,Aloe L

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the relationship between ornithine-delta-aminotransferase (OAT) deficiency and ornithine accumulation and the specific degeneration of retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells in gyrate atrophy. METHODS:Human RPE cells, human hepatoma cells, and human fibroblast cells were treated with 5-fluoromet...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Ueda M,Masu Y,Ando A,Maeda H,Del Monte MA,Uyama M,Ito S

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Lectin studies have shown that in the rabbit corneal epithelium, alpha-2,3 sialylation of O-linked glycans differentiates limbal and corneal epithelial cell phenotypes. Because sialic acid can be regulated at the level of the expression of sialyltransferases (STs), the purpose of the present study was to analyz...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Matic M,Petrov I,Stegman Z,Buku A,Wolosin JM

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate macular focal cone ERG (fERG) as a tool for reliable and early detection of central retinal function decay in cone-rod dystrophy (CRD). METHODS:A retrospective study of the time course of fERG amplitude and its relation to visual acuity alterations was performed in 47 CRD patients followed yearly f...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Galli-Resta L,Piccardi M,Ziccardi L,Fadda A,Minnella A,Marangoni D,Placidi G,Resta G,Falsini B

更新日期：2013-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the size variation of the X-chromosomal human red and green visual pigment gene array in the general population using pulsed field gel electrophoresis and Southern blotting. METHODS:Peripheral blood lymphocytes were prepared from 67 anonymous males. The cells were embedded in agarose and the genom...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Macke JP,Nathans J

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the location of parasympathetic neurons that innervate the meibomian glands in rats. METHODS:The B subunit of cholera toxin (CTB), fast blue, and a retrograde transneuronal tracer, the Bartha strain of pseudorabies virus (PRV-Ba), were injected into the upper eyelids of adult Sprague-Dawley rats a...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： LeDoux MS,Zhou Q,Murphy RB,Greene ML,Ryan P

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:PURPOSE. Test the hypothesis that the developmental increases in rod photoreceptor sensitivity and rod-mediated visual sensitivity at 10 degrees, 20 degrees , and 30 degrees eccentric are concurrent. It is known that maturation of the parafoveal (10 degrees eccentric) rod outer segments and visual sensitivit...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Fulton AB,Hansen RM

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Understanding the role of mitochondria in retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) is relevant to human disease as studies have shown mitochondrial abnormalities in primary open-angle glaucoma patients. This study seeks to determine the effects of the sigma-1 receptor (σ-1r) and its agonists on mitochondrial function in o...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Ellis DZ,Li L,Park Y,He S,Mueller B,Yorio T

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Regulatory CD4+ T cells (T regs) arise in the spleens of mice with anterior chamber-associated immune deviation (ACAID), an eye-derived tolerance evoked by injection of antigen into the ocular anterior chamber (AC). The current study was conducted to investigate the possibility that these T regs express CD25 an...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Keino H,Takeuchi M,Kezuka T,Hattori T,Usui M,Taguchi O,Streilein JW,Stein-Streilein J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothesis-driven science is expected to result in a continuum of studies and findings along a discrete path. By comparison, serendipity can lead to new directions that branch into different paths. Herein, I describe a diverse series of findings that were motivated by hypotheses, but driven by serendipity. I summarize...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Fischer AJ

更新日期：2011-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Müller cells are the principal glial cells of the retina. They span the entire thickness of the neural retina, and they are in close contact with neurons. Müller cells grow very slowly, and they undergo senescence with increasing passages. Moreover, successful primary cultures of Müller cells can be obtained on...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Lupien CB,Salesse C

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study evaluated the role for poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) in diabetes-induced cataractogenesis and early retinal changes. METHODS:Control and streptozotocin (STZ)-diabetic rats were treated with or without the PARP inhibitors 1,5-isoquinolinediol (ISO; 3 mg kg(-1) d(-1) intraperitoneally) and 10-(4-...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Drel VR,Xu W,Zhang J,Kador PF,Ali TK,Shin J,Julius U,Slusher B,El-Remessy AB,Obrosova IG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine whether the Ganzfeld ERG photopic negative response (PhNR), an assay of inner retinal activity, is altered in childhood optic glioma (OPG). METHODS:Seventeen pediatric patients with a diagnosis of OPG, established on neuro-ophthalmologic and brain/orbit magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) criteria, w...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Abed E,Piccardi M,Rizzo D,Chiaretti A,Ambrosio L,Petroni S,Parrilla R,Dickmann A,Riccardi R,Falsini B

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Recent studies demonstrated that short peptides derived from activity-dependent neurotrophic factor (ADNF) and activity-dependent neuroprotective protein (ADNP) are neuroprotective at femtomolar concentrations. We evaluated these findings in cultures of purified rat retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) using two such ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Lagrèze WA,Pielen A,Steingart R,Schlunck G,Hofmann HD,Gozes I,Kirsch M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To establish the regulatory roles that pericytes have in coordinating retinal endothelial cell (EC) growth and angiogenic potential. METHODS:Pericytes were derived from donor diabetic (DHuRP) or normal (NHuRP) human retinae, and characterized using vascular markers, coculture, contraction, morphogenesis, and p...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Durham JT,Dulmovits BM,Cronk SM,Sheets AR,Herman IM

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We compared the reproducibility and mutual agreement of the subfoveal choroidal thickness measurements by expert raters and an automated algorithm in enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT) images of eyes with nonneovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). METHODS:We recruited 44 ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Lee S,Fallah N,Forooghian F,Ko A,Pakzad-Vaezi K,Merkur AB,Kirker AW,Albiani DA,Young M,Sarunic MV,Beg MF

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells are known to play important roles in maintaining the homeostasis of the retina and in controlling choroidal neovascularization. The purpose of this study was to identify a factor or factors that would stimulate RPE cells to proliferate. METHODS:To isolate such a factor, 1...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Tanaka Y,Utsumi J,Matsui M,Sudo T,Nakamura N,Mutoh M,Kajita A,Sone S,Kigasawa K,Shibuya M,Reddy VN,Zhang Q,Iwata T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Endotoxin-induced uveitis (EIU) is a model that mimics human acute anterior uveitis. Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 is an enzyme that initiates the conversion of arachidonic acid (AA) into prostaglandins (PGs), whereas 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) generates leukotrienes (LT). The purpose of this study was to delineate the rol...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Tuo J,Tuaillon N,Shen D,Chan CC

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purposes:Trabeculectomy is a surgical procedure for lowering intraocular pressure in glaucoma patients, in which excessive scarring leading to failure of the filtering bleb adversely affects the surgical outcome. Heightened Tenon's capsule fibroblast (TCF) proliferation and extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition are imp...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Lei D,Dong C,Wu WK,Dong A,Li T,Chan MT,Zhou X,Yuan H

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00