Effects of [Na+], [Cl-], carbonic anhydrase, and intracellular pH on corneal endothelial bicarbonate transport.

abstract：PURPOSE:1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 (VitD3) has been shown to have immunoregulatory properties in animal models. In this study, we investigated its inhibitory effect on the immune response in Behçet's disease (BD) patients and the possible mechanisms involved. METHODS:Naive CD4(+) T cells from active BD patients and norm...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Tian Y,Wang C,Ye Z,Xiao X,Kijlstra A,Yang P

更新日期：2012-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To optimize a nonviral gene transfection system targeting the corneal limbal stem/progenitor cells. METHODS:A plasmid containing LacZ gene coding for beta-galactosidase (beta-gal) was transfected into human corneal epithelial cells (HCECs) and multilineage progenitor cells (MLPCs) with different transfection r...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Zhao B,Allinson SL,Ma A,Bentley AJ,Martin FL,Fullwood NJ

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The temporal and spatial sequence of development of laminar vascular plexuses was determined qualitatively and quantitatively in monkey and human retina. METHODS:Histologic and cytochemical methods were used to study Macaca monkey eyes from fetal day 55 (F55d; birth = F168d) to 17 years, and human retina from ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Gariano RF,Iruela-Arispe ML,Hendrickson AE

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the histologic and ultrastructural changes in Bruch's membrane (BM) in apolipoprotein E deficient [ApoE(-)] mice in comparison with age-matched control animals. METHODS:Two-month-old (group 1) and 8-month-old (group 2) normal control C57BL/6 mice and 2-month-old (group 3) and 8-month-old (group 4) A...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Dithmar S,Curcio CA,Le NA,Brown S,Grossniklaus HE

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The objective of the study was to investigate the effect of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) on the multifocal electroretinogram (mfERG) following an induced branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) in pigs. METHODS:Electrophysiological examination of the retina was performed in 20 pigs with stan...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Ejstrup R,Cour Ml,Kyhn MV,Heegaard S,Kiilgaard JF

更新日期：2012-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the effect of combining angiostatin with photodynamic therapy (PDT) using Lutetium Texaphyrin (Lu-Tex; Alcon, Fort Worth, TX) as a photosensitizer in bovine retinal capillary endothelial (BRCE) and retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells and to determine the mode of PDT-induced cell death in these cel...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Renno RZ,Delori FC,Holzer RA,Gragoudas ES,Miller JW

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of systemic hypoxia on the maintained firing rate (MFR) of single retinal ganglion cells has been measured in the cat at a constant luminance level. Systemic hypoxia was produced by reducing the percentage of oxygen in the respiratory mixture under forced ventilation so that arterial PCO2 and pH were consta...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Alder VA,Constable IJ

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the efficacy of a computerized optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) test in detecting visual acuity (VA) of >20/200. METHODS:This was a combined retrospective and prospective, noninterventional study. In phase I of the study, data from 168 eyes of 154 subjects who underwent the computerized objective VA tes...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Han SB,Yang HK,Hyon JY,Seo JM,Lee JH,Lee IB,Hwang JM

更新日期：2011-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The rhodopsin content of the human retina was determined spectrophotometrically. Retinas were removed completely by using an in vitro technique based on a simulation of retinal detachment. This method provides a total recovery of rod outer segments which contain the rhodopsin visual pigment or its apoprotein, opsin. U...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： van Kuijk FJ,Lewis JW,Buck P,Parker KR,Kliger DS

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To decipher the biological pathways involved in keratoconus pathophysiology by determining the patterns of differential gene expression between keratoconus and control corneas. METHODS:RNA was extracted from surgically removed corneas of 10 keratoconus patients and from normal corneas of 10 control patients wh...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Macé M,Galiacy SD,Erraud A,Mejía JE,Etchevers H,Allouche M,Desjardins L,Calvas P,Malecaze F

更新日期：2011-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study examined the association between peripapillary choroidal thickness (PCT) with age and race in a group of African descent (AD) and European descent (ED) subjects with normal eyes. METHODS:Optic nerve head images from enhanced depth imaging spectral-domain optical coherence tomography of 166 normal ey...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Rhodes LA,Huisingh C,Johnstone J,Fazio MA,Smith B,Wang L,Clark M,Downs JC,Owsley C,Girard MJ,Mari JM,Girkin CA

更新日期：2015-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine immune processes in the lacrimal gland of patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) by evaluating the expression of surface molecules associated with T-cell activation. METHODS:Antibodies to CD4, CD8, CD34, CD40, CD54, CD80, CD86, CD154, and HLA-DR were used for immunohistochemical ana...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Ogawa Y,Kuwana M,Yamazaki K,Mashima Y,Yamada M,Mori T,Okamoto S,Oguchi Y,Kawakami Y

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To characterize the pharmacology of the carbachol-induced changes of phospholipase C (PLC) activity and intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) in cultured human ciliary muscle cells. METHODS:Changes in PLC activity of cultured human ciliary muscle cells were determined by production of inositol phosphat...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Matsumoto S,Yorio T,DeSantis L,Pang IH

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the role of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in photoreceptor degeneration associated with photodynamic therapy (PDT) in a laser-induced model of choroidal neovascularization (CNV). METHODS:PDT was performed in monkey and Brown Norway rats with laser-induced CNV. L-NAME, a NOS inhibitor, or saline wa...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： She H,Nakazawa T,Matsubara A,Hisatomi T,Young TA,Michaud N,Connolly E,Hafezi-Moghadam A,Gragoudas ES,Miller JW

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the rate of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) layer and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) changes in nonoptic neuritis (NON) eyes of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) patients, and to find a specific imaging parameter useful for identifying disease progression. METHODS:Forty-five consecutive RR...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Graham EC,You Y,Yiannikas C,Garrick R,Parratt J,Barnett MH,Klistorner A

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Connexin50 (Cx50) is absolutely essential for normal postnatal lens growth. Deletion of Cx50 or replacement with Cx46 by knockin resulted in smaller lenses containing fewer cells. To determine why Cx50-deficient lenses fail to grow normally, cell proliferation was assayed during the period of growth failure. M...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Sellitto C,Li L,White TW

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To quantify protein changes in the morphologically distinct remodeling zone (RZ) and adjacent regions of the human lens outer cortex using spatially directed quantitative proteomics. METHODS:Lightly fixed human lens sections were deparaffinized and membranes labeled with fluorescent wheat germ agglutinin (WGA-...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Wenke JL,McDonald WH,Schey KL

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe lacrimal gland involvement in a murine model of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). METHODS:Histopathologic examination was performed on lacrimal glands of mice affected by GVHD at 1, 2, 4, and 6 weeks after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Histopathologic scoring, based on charact...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Hassan AS,Clouthier SG,Ferrara JL,Stepan A,Mian SI,Ahmad AZ,Elner VM

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the effect of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) chamber treatment in mouse models of retinal ischemia. METHODS:Unilateral central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) or optic nerve crush (ONC) was induced in 50 mice each, of which 30 were treated with 100% oxygen at 2 atm for 90 minutes immediately after inju...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Gaydar V,Ezrachi D,Dratviman-Storobinsky O,Hofstetter S,Avraham-Lubin BC,Goldenberg-Cohen N

更新日期：2011-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop and apply microarray-based resequencing technology to detect sequence alterations in multiple autosomal recessive retinal disease genes on a single high-throughput platform. METHODS:Oligonucleotides corresponding to both strands of the target exons and the flanking intron sequences of 29,214 bp from...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Mandal MN,Heckenlively JR,Burch T,Chen L,Vasireddy V,Koenekoop RK,Sieving PA,Ayyagari R

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine rod outer segments (ROS) specifically stimulate DNA synthesis in lymphocyte cultures from guinea pigs preimmunized with ROS. At doses above 10 microgram/ml protein, however, preparations of ROS inhibit DNA and RNA synthesis by the sensitized lymphocytes or by normal lymphocytes reacting to mitogens. The inhibti...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Gery I

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the assumption that myelin intrusion into the papilla and peripapillary region might occur with traumatic lesions of the optic nerve, a study was made of the clinical and histopathologic changes that might be expected. Nine monkey eyes were subjected to hemostat compression of the nerve close to the globe and studi...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Cogan DG,Yee RD

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe the variation in ocular biometry in adult Chinese individuals in Singapore. METHODS:This study was a population-based, cross-sectional survey of adult Chinese persons aged 40 to 81 years residing in Tanjong Pagar district, Singapore. Axial ocular dimensions, including axial length (AL), anterior ch...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Wong TY,Foster PJ,Ng TP,Tielsch JM,Johnson GJ,Seah SK

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Conventional time-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been shown to provide reproducible retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) measurements. Recently, high-speed, high-resolution Fourier-domain 3D-OCT has been introduced to improve OCT quality. It can provide 6-mm(2) high-density scans to provide RNFL thic...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Menke MN,Knecht P,Sturm V,Dabov S,Funk J

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Research to restore some degree of vision to patients suffering from retinal degeneration is becoming increasingly more promising. Several groups have chosen electrical stimulation of the remaining network of a degenerate retina as a means to generate discrete light percepts (phosphenes). Approaches vary signif...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Matteucci PB,Chen SC,Tsai D,Dodds CW,Dokos S,Morley JW,Lovell NH,Suaning GJ

更新日期：2013-06-21 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:Keratoconus (KTCN) is a complex eye disorder resulting in loss of visual function. Its development is affected by genetic and environmental components. The aim of this study was to unravel the role of epigenetic factors in KTCN. Methods:To verify if DNA methylation may play a role in KTCN development, reduced ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Kabza M,Karolak JA,Rydzanicz M,Udziela M,Gasperowicz P,Ploski R,Szaflik JP,Gajecka M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The selective degeneration of pericytes and the proliferation of endothelial cells (ECs) appear to be associated with microaneurysm formation, an initial deficit in the early stage of diabetic retinopathy. The preventive effect of aldose reductase (AR) inhibitor (ARI) for high glucose-induced pericyte loss and ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Takamura Y,Tomomatsu T,Kubo E,Tsuzuki S,Akagi Y

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine corneal endothelial cells in culture synthesize predominantly type III collagen, unlike rabbit corneal endothelial cultures which synthesize type IV collagen. In an attempt to document whether this type III collagen synthesis by bovine cells is a tissue culture-specific phenomenon, collagens synthesized by orga...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Kay EP,Oh S

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Identification of novel proteins involved in retinal neovascularization may facilitate new and more effective molecular-based treatments for proliferative retinopathy. Tubedown-1 (Tbdn-1) is a novel protein that shows homology to the yeast acetyltransferase subunit NAT1 and copurifies with an acetyltransferase ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Wall DS,Gendron RL,Good WV,Miskiewicz E,Woodland M,Leblanc K,Paradis H

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00