Directed Differentiation of Human Corneal Endothelial Cells From Human Embryonic Stem Cells by Using Cell-Conditioned Culture Media.

abstract：Purpose:To evaluate the microvascular changes in eyes with RP quantitatively using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) and to determine whether the correlations between these indices and the severity of RP are significant. Methods:This was a retrospective, observational study. The medical records of 53 RP ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Inooka D,Ueno S,Kominami T,Sayo A,Okado S,Ito Y,Terasaki H

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between direction-selective mechanisms for motion were examined in strabismic and anisometropic amblyopia. Amblyopes were found to have a marked reduction in sensitivity to flicker or movement when the amblyopic eye was presented with a combination of two gratings drifting in opposite directions at the sa...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Schor CM,Levi DM

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To characterize the cellular expression patterns of antiangiogenic factors differentially regulated in the fetal human macula. METHODS:RNA was extracted from macular, nasal, and surround biopsies of three human fetal retinas at midgestation. Relative levels of expression of pigment epithelium-derived factor (P...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Kozulin P,Natoli R,Bumsted O'Brien KM,Madigan MC,Provis JM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the effects of an imaginary and a visual target on torsional optokinetic nystagmus (tOKN) and directional symmetry of tOKN. METHODS:Torsional OKN was induced by a rotating random dot pattern (52 degrees in diameter, constant angular velocity: +/-30 deg/sec to +/-52 deg/sec) with an imaginary or ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Suzuki Y,Shinmei Y,Nara H,Ifukube T

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:We investigated whether fundus autofluorescence (FAF) lifetimes in patients with retinitis pigmentosa display a disease-specific lifetime pattern. Methods:Fundus autofluorescence lifetime imaging ophthalmoscopy (FLIO) was performed in two spectral channels (498-560 and 560-720 nm) after excitation with a 473 n...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Dysli C,Schuerch K,Escher P,Wolf S,Zinkernagel MS

更新日期：2018-04-01 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 determine whether the relative amounts of mucin mRNA in the conjunctival epithelium and mucin protein in the tears are altered in patients with Sjögren syndrome compared with healthy individuals. METHODS:Tear fluid was collected from the inferior fornix of normal subjects (n = 17) and patients with Sjögren ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Argüeso P,Balaram M,Spurr-Michaud S,Keutmann HT,Dana MR,Gipson IK

更新日期：2002-04-01 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:Evidence from animals and blind humans suggests that early visual experience influences the developmental calibration of auditory localization. Hypothesizing that unilateral amblyopia may involve cross-modal deficits in spatial hearing, we measured the precision and accuracy of sound localization in humans with...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Richards MD,Goltz HC,Wong AMF

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study the effect of pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) on vitreous oxygenation (pO2) using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). METHODS:Patients due to undergo PPV for either macular hole or epiretinal membrane were recruited. MRI scanning was performed 1 week before and at least 3 months after PPV. MRI T1 mapping wa...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Simpson AR,Dowell NG,Jackson TL,Tofts PS,Hughes EH

更新日期：2013-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Metabolism and transport of glutathione (GSH), the endogenous thiol antioxidant, in conjunctival tissue to date are poorly understood. The purpose of the present study was to define transport characteristics of GSH in primary cultured rabbit conjunctival epithelial cells (RCECs). METHODS:RCECs were grown on me...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Gukasyan HJ,Lee VH,Kim KJ,Kannan R

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:To assess clinical characteristics, foveal structure, mutation spectrum, and prevalence rate of Åland eye disease (AED)/incomplete congenital stationary night blindness (iCSNB). Methods:A retrospective survey included individuals diagnosed with AED at a national low-vision center from 1980 to 2014. A subset of...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Hove MN,Kilic-Biyik KZ,Trotter A,Grønskov K,Sander B,Larsen M,Carroll J,Bech-Hansen T,Rosenberg T

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the effect of ABCA4 mutation status on lipofuscin-related quantitative autofluorescence (qAF) in humans and on bisretinoid accumulation in mice. METHODS:Genotyped parents (n = 26; age 37-64 years) of patients with biallelic ABCA4-related retinopathy underwent in-depth retinal phenotyping includi...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Müller PL,Gliem M,Mangold E,Bolz HJ,Finger RP,McGuinness M,Betz C,Jiang Z,Weber BH,MacLaren RE,Holz FG,Radu RA,Charbel Issa P

更新日期：2015-12-01 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 examine the possibility that ocular surface epithelial cells might be grown in culture for use as grafts. METHODS:The proliferative capacity of epithelial cells cultured from the conjunctiva, limbus, and central cornea of normal human eyes was compared. Single cells disaggregated from approximately 1 mm2 bi...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Lindberg K,Brown ME,Chaves HV,Kenyon KR,Rheinwald JG

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of visual impairment in developed countries. While DR has been described classically as a microvascular disease, recent evidence suggests that changes to retinal microglia are an early feature of retinopathy. In our study, we assessed changes in microglial distribution...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Kezic JM,Chen X,Rakoczy EP,McMenamin PG

更新日期：2013-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Protocols for light microscopy of frog lenses that result in good visibility of cell structure from the lens surface to its nucleus are presented. The lenses are fixed in 10% neutral formalin in 0.06 M phosphate buffer and are embedded in Epon 812. Following staining of the thick sections with selected Procion dyes, e...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Rae JL,Truitt KD,Kuszak JR

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To design a contact lens to treat and prevent fungal ocular infections. METHODS:Curved contact lenses were created by encapsulating econazole-impregnated poly(lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA) films in poly(hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (pHEMA) by ultraviolet photopolymerization. Release studies were conducted in p...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Ciolino JB,Hudson SP,Mobbs AN,Hoare TR,Iwata NG,Fink GR,Kohane DS

更新日期：2011-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the metrics of vertical saccades in elderly subjects for comparison in neurologic disease. METHODS:Sixteen elderly subjects, ten middle-aged subjects, and thirteen young subjects were examined using a magnetic search coil technique. Saccades were measured to predictable vertical target steps and m...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Huaman AG,Sharpe JA

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine whether basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and transforming growth factor-beta 2 (TGF-beta 2) influence the contractile activity and the expression of alpha-smooth muscle actin (alpha-SMA) in bovine lens epithelial cells (LECs). To examine whether modulation of contractile activity by these grow...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Kurosaka D,Kato K,Nagamoto T,Negishi K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the morphologic changes in the retina in the macula and around the optic disc in patients with autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA) associated with a mutation in the OPA1 gene. METHODS:Cross-sectional images of the macular area of the retina were obtained by optical coherence tomography (OCT) i...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Ito Y,Nakamura M,Yamakoshi T,Lin J,Yatsuya H,Terasaki H

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We tested the hypotheses that the mismatch between the clinical disc margin (CDM) and Bruch's membrane opening (BMO) is a function of BMO area (BMOA) and is affected by the presence of glaucoma. METHODS:A total of 45 normal eyes (45 subjects) and 53 glaucomatous eyes (53 patients) were enrolled and underwent r...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Amini N,Miraftabi A,Henry S,Chung N,Nowroozizadeh S,Caprioli J,Nouri-Mahdavi K

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed comparison of intracellular pH (pHi) regulatory mechanisms was made between fresh (FBCE) and cultured (CBCE) bovine corneal endothelium to: (1) identify the ion transport mechanisms that could directly or indirectly affect transendothelial HCO3- transport; and (2) determine if cultured cells could serve as ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Bonanno JA,Giasson C

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Adult central nervous system (CNS) neurons are unable to regenerate their axons after injury. Krüppel-like transcription factor (KLF) family members regulate intrinsic axon growth ability in vitro and in vivo, but mechanisms downstream of these transcription factors are not known. Methods:Purified retinal gang...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Galvao J,Iwao K,Apara A,Wang Y,Ashouri M,Shah TN,Blackmore M,Kunzevitzky NJ,Moore DL,Goldberg JL

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the antiangiogenic effect of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) on experimental choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in mice. Methods:Choroidal neovascularization was induced by rupturing the Bruch's membrane using laser photocoagulation in C57BL/6 mice. The following day, intra...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Roh YJ,Rho CR,Cho WK,Kang S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the application of anterior corneal and ocular aberrations in detecting mildly ectatic corneas. METHODS:This study retrospectively reviewed the data of 220 eyes separated into three groups by the NIDEK Corneal Navigator System automated corneal classification software: normal (N) (n = 123); form...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Saad A,Gatinel D

更新日期：2012-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:StarGen is an equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV)-based lentiviral vector that expresses the photoreceptor-specific adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-binding cassette transporter (ABCA4) protein that is mutated in Stargardt disease (STGD1), a juvenile macular dystrophy. EIAV vectors are able to efficiently transdu...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Binley K,Widdowson P,Loader J,Kelleher M,Iqball S,Ferrige G,de Belin J,Carlucci M,Angell-Manning D,Hurst F,Ellis S,Miskin J,Fernandes A,Wong P,Allikmets R,Bergstrom C,Aaberg T,Yan J,Kong J,Gouras P,Prefontaine A,

更新日期：2013-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the interobserver agreement for the detection of optical coherence tomography (OCT) features of disease activity in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). METHODS:This was a cross-sectional agreement study in which grading of OCT line scans from patients with nAMD was...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Patel PJ,Browning AC,Chen FK,Da Cruz L,Tufail A

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the performance of an automated retinal image quality assessment system for use in automated diabetic retinopathy grading. METHODS:Algorithmic methods have been developed for assessing the quality of 45 degrees single field retinal images for use in diabetic retinopathy screening. For this purpose,...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Fleming AD,Philip S,Goatman KA,Olson JA,Sharp PF

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To use a theoretical model of the observer on the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test to estimate the magnitude of random variation in 100-Hue test error scores. METHODS:The model was based upon classical signal detection theory. Results from the model were obtained by computer simulation. RESULTS:There is a fair...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Craven BJ

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00