Tetramethylpyrazine Attenuates Transdifferentiation of TGF-β2-Treated Human Tenon's Fibroblasts.

abstract：:In 188 patients from separate families with various forms of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and 91 normal subjects, plasma fatty acids were measured as a percentage of total plasma fatty acids, and their concentrations were determined using capillary-column gas-liquid chromatography. After controlling for the effects of ag...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Gong J,Rosner B,Rees DG,Berson EL,Weigel-DiFranco CA,Schaefer EJ

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the kinetics of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) in serum and aqueous humor of rats with different susceptibilities to endotoxin-induced uveitis (EIU), after footpad injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). METHODS:Samples were collected from EIU-susceptible Lewis rats and EIU-re...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： de Vos AF,van Haren MA,Verhagen C,Hoekzema R,Kijlstra A

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate by vector analysis the corneal astigmatic changes occurring in keratoconic corneas during a 3-year follow-up and to determine the relationship between these changes and other clinical changes. METHODS:Keratoconic eyes (n = 114) of 75 patients ranging in age from 14 to 70 years were retrospectively ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Piñero DP,Alio JL,Tomás J,Maldonado MJ,Teus MA,Barraquer RI

更新日期：2011-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Retinal dopamine deficiency is a potential cause of myopia and visual deficits in retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). We investigated the cellular mechanisms responsible for lowered levels of retinal dopamine in an oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR) mouse model of ROP. METHODS:Retinopathy was induced by exposing m...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Spix NJ,Liu LL,Zhang Z,Hohlbein JP,Prigge CL,Chintala S,Ribelayga CP,Zhang DQ

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (JNCL or Batten Disease) is one of the most common progressive neurodegenerative disorders of childhood, resulting from autosomal recessive inheritance of mutations in the CLN3 gene. Pathologically, Batten disease is characterized by lysosomal storage of autofluorescent m...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Chattopadhyay S,Kingsley E,Serour A,Curran TM,Brooks AI,Pearce DA

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Targeted drug delivery to the ocular tissues remains a challenge. Biodegradable intraocular implants allow prolonged controlled release of drugs directly into the eye. In this study, we evaluated an anterior suprachoroidal polyurethane implant containing dexamethasone polyurethane dispersions (DX-PUD) as a drug...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Barbosa Saliba J,Vieira L,Fernandes-Cunha GM,Rodrigues Da Silva G,Ligório Fialho S,Silva-Cunha A,Bousquet E,Naud MC,Ayres E,Oréfice RL,Tekaya M,Kowalczuk L,Zhao M,Behar-Cohen F

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Juvenile monkeys being trained on smooth-pursuit tasks exhibit ocular oscillations resembling pendular nystagmus. The purpose of this study was to analyze these oscillations, the effects of gabapentin on them, and responses of cerebellar floccular neurons to understand possible neuronal mechanisms. METHODS:Fou...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Shichinohe N,Barnes G,Akao T,Kurkin S,Fukushima J,Kase M,Leigh RJ,Belton T,Fukushima K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) standard structural measures and a new three-dimensional (3D) volume optic nerve head (ONH) change detection method for detecting change over time in severely advanced-glaucoma (open-angle glaucoma [OAG]) patients. METHODS:Thirty-five eyes of 35 ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Belghith A,Medeiros FA,Bowd C,Liebmann JM,Girkin CA,Weinreb RN,Zangwill LM

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen patients with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) have undergone a thorough eye examination. These patients had statistically significantly lower ocular rigidity measurements than a group of normal volunteers matched on age, sex, and refractive error. In addition, the corneal diameter and length of the eyeball was sm...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Kaiser-Kupfer MI,McCain L,Shapiro JR,Podgor MJ,Kupfer C,Rowe D

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the histologic effects and clinical outcomes of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) delivered by miniaturized annular transducers for ciliary body coagulation in an animal study. METHODS:Eighteen eyes of 18 rabbits were insonified with a ring comprising a six-sector transducer, to produce a 12...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Aptel F,Charrel T,Palazzi X,Chapelon JY,Denis P,Lafon C

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the efficacy of the digital fluoroscopy system (DFS) for the in vivo assessment of pharmacologically induced posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) and vitreous liquefaction in a rabbit model. METHODS:Twenty eyes from 10 New Zealand white rabbits were divided into 5 gr...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Bae JH,Park HS,Kim JM,Lee BR,Lee SC,Tandogan T,Auffarth GU,Koss MJ,Choi CY

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Retinal damage in ocular toxoplasmosis reflects Toxoplasma gondii-induced cell lysis and reactive inflammation. Human retinal histopathology demonstrates the presence of neutrophils, but activities of this leukocyte subset are unstudied. We conducted in vitro experiments to evaluate roles for neutrophils as ret...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Ashander LM,Lie S,Ma Y,Rochet E,Washington JM,Furtado JM,Appukuttan B,Smith JR

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Recent studies have shown that a decrease of regulatory T (Treg) cells may contribute to the activity of acute anterior uveitis (AAU) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). A number of immunogenetic factors including IL2RA, miR-27a, miR-182, and FoxO1 are associated with Treg cell function. In this study, we investig...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Yu H,Liu Y,Zhang L,Wu L,Zheng M,Cheng L,Luo L,Kijlstra A,Yang P

更新日期：2014-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the impact of ambient room lighting on the magnitude of flicker light-induced retinal vasodilations in healthy individuals. METHODS:Twenty healthy nonsmokers participated in a balanced 2 × 2 crossover study. Retinal vascular imaging was performed with the dynamic vessel analyzer under reduced or...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Noonan JE,Dusting GJ,Nguyen TT,Man RE,Best WJ,Lamoureux EL

更新日期：2014-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the role of PalB and PacC, two components of a pH-responsive signal-transduction pathway of Aspergillus nidulans, during the pathogenesis of fungal infection of the cornea. METHODS:Fungal strains included an A. nidulans wild-type isolate (A83), loss-of-function A. nidulans mutants of the palB (B...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Hua X,Yuan X,Wilhelmus KR

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Juvenile open-angle glaucoma (JOAG) differs from primary open-angle glaucoma in that it is usually a more severe phenotype and has an earlier age of onset. Optineurin was recently associated with a variant of POAG that is characterized by intraocular pressure within normal limits: normal-tension glaucoma. The p...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Willoughby CE,Chan LL,Herd S,Billingsley G,Noordeh N,Levin AV,Buys Y,Trope G,Sarfarazi M,Héon E

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To test whether a diet supplemented with coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) ameliorates glutamate excitotoxicity and oxidative stress-mediated retinal ganglion cell (RGC) degeneration by preventing mitochondrial alterations in the retina of glaucomatous DBA/2J mice. METHODS:Preglaucomatous DBA/2J and age-matched control DBA...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Lee D,Shim MS,Kim KY,Noh YH,Kim H,Kim SY,Weinreb RN,Ju WK

更新日期：2014-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the influence of specific regions within Lp82 calpain on protein stability, enzymatic activity, and localization within lens and to test the influence of an Lp82 knockout mouse on normal maturational proteolysis in lens. METHODS:DNA constructs for Lp82 and Lp82-related proteins were subcloned into...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Ma H,Shih M,Fukiage C,Azuma M,Duncan MK,Reed NA,Richard I,Beckmann JS,Shearer TR

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the capacity for rapid saccade adaptation in Williams-Beuren Syndrome (WBS), a genetic neurodevelopmental disorder, in which it has been observed that saccadic accuracy is severely reduced. METHODS:Saccade amplitude modification was elicited by backward steps (30% of target eccentricity) during ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： van der Geest JN,Haselen GC,Frens MA

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) and other standardized classification schemes have laid a foundation for tremendous advances in the understanding and management of diabetic retinopathy (DR). However, technological advances in optics and image analysis, especially optical coherence tomography (OC...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Abramoff MD,Fort PE,Han IC,Jayasundera KT,Sohn EH,Gardner TW

更新日期：2018-01-01 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:The purpose of this study was to study the effect of minocycline and several neurotrophic factors, alone or in combination, on photoreceptor survival and macro/microglial reactivity in two rat models of retinal degeneration. Methods:P23H-1 (rhodopsin mutation), Royal College of Surgeon (RCS, pigment epithelium...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Di Pierdomenico J,Scholz R,Valiente-Soriano FJ,Sánchez-Migallón MC,Vidal-Sanz M,Langmann T,Agudo-Barriuso M,García-Ayuso D,Villegas-Pérez MP

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Adhesion molecules play a critical role in leukocyte emigration to wound sites, but differences are evident in different vascular beds. In this study, the contributions of P-selectin to neutrophil emigration into the cornea after central epithelial abrasion were investigated. METHODS:Re-epithelialization, neut...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Li Z,Rumbaut RE,Burns AR,Smith CW

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent hypothesis for the cellular mechanism of fluid secretion by lacrimal acini has been based, in part, on the results of subcellular fractionation analyses of lacrimal gland fragments which had been incubated for a brief period in vitro. An important assumption in those studies was that the ion transporters and ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Yiu SC,Wood RL,Mircheff AK

更新日期：1990-11-01 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:Tubby-like proteins (TULPs) are a family of four proteins, two of which have been linked to neurosensory disease phenotypes. TULP1 is a photoreceptor-specific protein that is mutated in retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited retinal disease characterized by the degeneration of rod and cone photoreceptor cells. To i...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Xi Q,Pauer GJ,Ball SL,Rayborn M,Hollyfield JG,Peachey NS,Crabb JW,Hagstrom SA

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The objective of this systematic review was to examine the evidence on zinc intake from foods and supplements in the primary prevention and treatment of AMD. METHODS:Randomized controlled trials (RCTs), prospective cohort, retrospective cohort, and case-control studies that investigated zinc intake from foods ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Vishwanathan R,Chung M,Johnson EJ

更新日期：2013-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:To identify potentially pathogenic variants (PPVs) in Chinese familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) patients in FZD4, LRP5, NDP, TSPAN12, ZNF408, and KIF11 genes. Methods:Blood samples were collected from probands and their parent(s). Genomic DNA was analyzed by next-generation sequencing, and the sequen...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Li JK,Li Y,Zhang X,Chen CL,Rao YQ,Fei P,Zhang Q,Zhao P,Li J

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To identify the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) surface antigen recognized by the monoclonal antibody RET-PE2. METHODS:A lambda bacteriophage complementary DNA (cDNA) expression library, representing the rat RPE cell line RPE-J, was constructed and screened with the RET-PE2 monoclonal antibody. Transient tran...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Finnemann SC,Marmorstein AD,Neill JM,Rodriguez-Boulan E

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the role of epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) and prostaglandins (PGs) in retinal blood vessel calibers and vasodilation during flicker light stimulation in humans. METHODS:Twelve healthy nonsmokers participated in a balanced crossover study. Oral fluconazole 400 mg and dispersible aspirin 600 mg...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Noonan JE,Dusting GJ,Nguyen TT,Jenkins AJ,Man RE,Best WJ,Dias DA,Jayasinghe NS,Roessner U,Lamoureux EL

更新日期：2014-10-08 00:00:00