Neuroprotectin D1 restores corneal nerve integrity and function after damage from experimental surgery.

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine whether intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation alters OPA1 expression and triggers OPA1 release, as well as whether the uncompetitive N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptor antagonist memantine blocks OPA1 release and subsequent apoptotic cell death in glaucomatous DBA/2J mouse retina. METHO...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Ju WK,Kim KY,Angert M,Duong-Polk KX,Lindsey JD,Ellisman MH,Weinreb RN

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the absolute blood flow rate in a single choroidal vessel using Doppler optical coherence tomography (OCT). METHODS:Three choroidal vessels were selected in the right eye of three normal subjects, and were measured with Doppler OCT at a 1020-nm probe wavelength. The pulsatile change of the blood fl...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Miura M,Makita S,Iwasaki T,Yasuno Y

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 32 patients with low vision who were considered clinically appropriate candidates for visual rehabilitation with telescopic spectacles were prospectively studied before the first attempted use of these visual aids. Laboratory measurements were made of: (1) rotational head stability in pitch and yaw during q...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Demer JL,Goldberg J,Porter FI,Schmidt K

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To explore differences in optic disc tilt and torsion between normal control and glaucoma subjects, and to determine whether the direction of optic disc tilt is consistent with the initial location of glaucomatous visual field (VF) defect. METHODS:Glaucoma patients with isolated superior or inferior hemifield ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Choi JA,Park HY,Shin HY,Park CK

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The angiopoietin (Ang) system plays an important role in vascular stabilization and pathologic neovascularization. The hypothesis for the study was that, in addition to modulating endothelial cell behavior, the angiopoietin/Tie-2 system also regulates the pericyte apoptosis and/or the vessel maturation associat...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Cai J,Kehoe O,Smith GM,Hykin P,Boulton ME

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Previous work from the authors' laboratory has shown that Hsp27 is specifically upregulated after retinal ischemic preconditioning (IPC), and this upregulation acts as a key cytoprotective factor in preventing retinal ischemic damage. The regulatory mechanisms involved in the upregulation of Hsp27 after IPC are...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Whitlock NA,Agarwal N,Ma JX,Crosson CE

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The pattern electroretinogram (PERG) is reduced in early glaucoma and in some eyes with ocular hypertension (OHT). This study was designed to test the ability of the PERG to predict the development of visual field loss in OHT eyes. METHODS:In 29 eyes of 18 patients with high-risk OHT, the visual fields were te...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Pfeiffer N,Tillmon B,Bach M

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the relationship between changes in contrast sensitivity, if any, after glaucoma therapy and the test-retest reliability of the CSV-1000 contrast sensitivity test. METHODS:Patients with primary open angle glaucoma (N = 16) were retrospectively evaluated to determine changes in visual function, as ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Pomerance GN,Evans DW

更新日期：1994-08-01 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:Animal studies suggest that the periphery of the eye plays a major role in emmetropization. It is also known that human myopes tend to have relative peripheral hyperopia compared to the foveal refraction. This study investigated peripheral sensitivity to defocus in human subjects, specifically whether myopes ar...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Rosén R,Lundström L,Unsbo P

更新日期：2012-10-17 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：:Acute laser injury to the tapetum of the feline retina produces thrombosis of the choriocapillaris. Early changes are characterized by the appearance of platelet-fibrin thrombi within capillary loops and disruption of endothelial integrity. By 4 days, thrombi have disappeared, and the endothelium shows regenerative ch...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Perry DD,Reddick RL,Risco JM

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Identification of causative mutations for retinal blinding disorders is often limited by restricted understanding of gene expression and underlying molecular mechanisms that trigger degenerative processes. This study was conducted to develop a catalog of canine retina-expressed genes that would provide a unique...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Zangerl B,Sun Q,Pillardy J,Johnson JL,Schweitzer PA,Hernandez AG,Liu L,Acland GM,Aguirre GD

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of vision impairment and blindness worldwide in the working-age population, and the incidence is rising. Until now it has been difficult to define initiating events and disease progression at the molecular level, as available diabetic rodent models do not present the...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Ali Z,Zang J,Lagali N,Schmitner N,Salvenmoser W,Mukwaya A,Neuhauss SCF,Jensen LD,Kimmel RA

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) under optimized wavefront correction allows for routine imaging of foveal cone photoreceptors. The intersubject variability of foveal cone density was measured and its relation to eye length evaluated. METHODS:AOSLO was used to image 18 healthy eyes with ax...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Li KY,Tiruveedhula P,Roorda A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the long-term effects of transient ligature of the ophthalmic vessels (LOV) on the inner and outer retina as well as on retinotectal projection, and whether brimonidine (BMD) has protective effects. METHODS:In adult rats, the left eye was subjected to 90 minutes of LOV. One hour before ischemia,...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Mayor-Torroglosa S,De la Villa P,Rodríguez ME,López-Herrera MP,Avilés-Trigueros M,García-Avilés A,de Imperial JM,Villegas-Pérez MP,Vidal-Sanz M

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:To investigate the chromatic characteristics and intensity-response function of light-induced reflex lacrimation and its correlation with the melanopsin-driven postillumination pupil response (PIPR). Methods:Eleven visually normal participants completed the experiment. Lacrimation was measured in one eye by pl...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Lei S,Goltz HC,Chen X,Zivcevska M,Wong AM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to compare the accommodative performance of the amblyopic eye of children with unilateral amblyopia to that of their nonamblyopic eye, and also to that of children without amblyopia, during both monocular and binocular viewing. METHODS:Modified Nott retinoscopy was used to measure...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Manh V,Chen AM,Tarczy-Hornoch K,Cotter SA,Candy TR

更新日期：2015-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Linkage intervals for erosive vitreoretinopathy (ERVR) and Wagner disease previously were found to overlap at 5q14.3. In a Japanese family with Wagner disease, a CSPG2/Versican splice site mutation (c.4004-2A-->G) was recently reported that resulted in a 39-nucleotide exon 8 in-frame deletion. We investigated w...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Mukhopadhyay A,Nikopoulos K,Maugeri A,de Brouwer AP,van Nouhuys CE,Boon CJ,Perveen R,Zegers HA,Wittebol-Post D,van den Biesen PR,van der Velde-Visser SD,Brunner HG,Black GC,Hoyng CB,Cremers FP

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evoked potentials (EP's) in response to phase-alternating gratings were recorded from normal and stereoblind or stereodefective subjects (adults and children) under monocular and binocular viewing conditions. The amplitude of the binocular EP was found to exceed the larger monocular EP in normal but not in stereodefec...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Amigo G,Fiorentini A,Pirchio M,Spinelli D

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the effect of the tissue origin of stromal fibroblasts and epithelial cells on reconstructed corneas in vitro. METHODS:Four types of constructs were produced by the self-assembly approach using the following combinations of human cells: corneal fibroblasts/corneal epithelial cells, corneal fibro...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Carrier P,Deschambeault A,Audet C,Talbot M,Gauvin R,Giasson CJ,Auger FA,Guérin SL,Germain L

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the strength of the association between retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness and optic disc topography measured with confocal retinal tomography (HRT II; Heidelberg Engineering, Dossenheim, Germany), optical coherence tomography (StratusOCT; Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Dublin, CA), and scanning la...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Bowd C,Zangwill LM,Medeiros FA,Tavares IM,Hoffmann EM,Bourne RR,Sample PA,Weinreb RN

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:National programs for trachoma control are implementing mass treatment programs in which azithromycin is used as part of the control strategy. Dose is determined by weight, which can be difficult to determine in field conditions. The purposes of this study were to determine whether an accurate dose could be det...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Muñoz B,Solomon AW,Zingeser J,Barwick R,Burton M,Bailey R,Mabey D,Foster A,West SK

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) is a phospholipid growth factor that stimulates proliferation, chemotaxis, cation currents, and K(+) currents in retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells. LPA receptor transduction was analyzed in human and rat RPE cells. METHODS:Cells were cultured with standard methods, and signalin...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Thoreson WB,Ryan JS,Shi C,Kelly ME,Bryson EJ,Toews ML,Ediger TL,Chacko DM

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the in vitro properties of gap junctions on the isolated rabbit ciliary epithelium. METHODS:Intracellular potential was measured and lucifer yellow (5% in 1 M LiCl) was iontophoretically injected into a ciliary epithelial cell. Fixated tissue was examined with a laser confocal microscope. RESULTS:D...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Oh J,Krupin T,Tang LQ,Sveen J,Lahlum RA

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the possible correlation between the visual field defects in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and the expression and enzymatic activity of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoenzymes and nitrotyrosine in trabecular meshwork (TM) samples. METHODS:TM specimens were collected from 146 patie...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Fernández-Durango R,Fernández-Martínez A,García-Feijoo J,Castillo A,de la Casa JM,García-Bueno B,Pérez-Nievas BG,Fernández-Cruz A,Leza JC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To observe the spatial distribution of households with high loads of ocular chlamydia infection in children, before and after mass treatment with azithromycin to determine whether there exists spatial clustering of households with high loads of infection and the spatial scale of the clustering. METHODS:All res...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Broman AT,Shum K,Munoz B,Duncan DD,West SK

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit corneas were treated in vitro and in vivo with cholera toxin (CTX), a specific and irreversible activator of adenylate cyclase. Tissue pieces incubated in vitro in the presence of 10 mug/ml CTX for 15 min continuously synthesized adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) at an increased rate for 3 hr in the ab...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Jumblatt MM,Fogle JA,Neufeld AH

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroretinographic studies of myctalopic Appaloosa horses demonstrated photopic and scotopic abnormalities similar to those in humans with congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) of the Schubert-Bornschein type. The phototopic abnormalities consisted of reduced b-wave amplitudes and slower than normal b-wave im...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Witzel DA,Smith EL,Wilson RD,Aguirre GD

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common primary intraocular malignancy in adults and approximately half of those diagnosed will die of metastasis. This study investigates whether UM progression is driven by a subpopulation of stem-like cells, termed "cancer stem cells" (CSCs). Methods:Expression of postulated s...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Doherty RE,Sisley K,Hammond DW,Rennie IG,Cross NA

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00