Ca++-induced cataract.

abstract：PURPOSE:Best disease is a monogenic macular degeneration caused mainly by heterozygous mutations in the BEST1 gene. The objective was to characterize the molecular and clinical features of patients with the classical form of Best disease that is inherited in an autosomal recessive mode. METHODS:Clinical evaluation inc...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Bitner H,Mizrahi-Meissonnier L,Griefner G,Erdinest I,Sharon D,Banin E

更新日期：2011-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:As efforts to noninvasively measure intracranial pressure (ICP) increase, we thought it important to investigate the timing of retinal venous pulsation in relation to the intraocular and intracranial pressure pulses. METHODS:Neurosurgical patients undergoing continuous direct ICP monitoring had video recording...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Morgan WH,Lind CR,Kain S,Fatehee N,Bala A,Yu DY

更新日期：2012-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the ocular complications of intravitreal injection of high dose bevacizumab in monkey eyes. METHODS:Four healthy monkeys (Macaca fuscata) received an intravitreal injection of either 6.25 or 12.5 mg bevacizumab in the right eye; the left control eye received an intravitreal injection of the same vo...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Sakurai K,Akiyama H,Shimoda Y,Yoshida I,Kurabayashi M,Kishi S

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collagen deposition is largely responsible for scar information, an undesirable outcome of glaucoma filtering surgery. Because interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) has been reported to inhibit collagen synthesis in a variety of cells, the authors examined its effect on collagen synthesis by Tenon's capsule fibroblasts culture...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Low SQ,Kitada S,Lee DA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the reproducibility of the ocular response analyzer (ORA) in nonoperated eyes and the impact of corneal biomechanical properties on intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements in normal and glaucomatous eyes. METHODS:In the reliability study, two independent examiners obtained repeated ORA measurements i...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Moreno-Montañés J,Maldonado MJ,García N,Mendiluce L,García-Gómez PJ,Seguí-Gómez M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Diabetes reduces retinal and visual sensitivity to dim light flashes. However, the impact of diabetes on contrast sensitivity in dim light is unknown. Based on the lowered visual sensitivity previously observed, we hypothesized that contrast sensitivity would similarly be reduced. We therefore examined scotopic...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Umino Y,Solessio E

更新日期：2013-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the use of topically applied FK506, a new immunosuppressive compound, systemic and ocular absorption was determined in serum and various ocular tissues. METHODS:Two drops of 20 microliters FK506 were applied using oil dissolved (OD-FK506) or liposome-bound (LIP-FK506) drug. FK506 concentrations ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Pleyer U,Lutz S,Jusko WJ,Nguyen KD,Narawane M,Rückert D,Mondino BJ,Lee VH,Nguyen K

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Strabismus is a common eye disorder with a prevalence of 1% to 4%. Comitant strabismus accounts for approximately 75% of all strabismus, yet more is known about the less common incomitant disorders. Comitant strabismus is at least partly inherited, but only one recessive genetic susceptibility locus, on chromos...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Rice A,Nsengimana J,Simmons IG,Toomes C,Hoole J,Willoughby CE,Cassidy F,Williams GA,George ND,Sheridan E,Young TL,Hunter TI,Barrett BT,Elliott DB,Bishop DT,Inglehearn CF

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In addition to photoreceptor degeneration, excessive light causes degenerative alterations in the inner retina and ganglion cell death. A disturbance in osmohomeostasis may be one causative factor for the alterations in the inner retina. Because Müller cells mediate inner retinal osmohomeostasis (mainly through...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Iandiev I,Wurm A,Hollborn M,Wiedemann P,Grimm C,Remé CE,Reichenbach A,Pannicke T,Bringmann A

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Sarcoidosis is a heterogeneous and multisystem granulomatous disorder. The etiology still is uncertain, but the disease currently is thought to be triggered by various genetic as well as environmental factors. Recently, an association between sarcoidosis and the butyrophilin-like 2 (BTNL2) gene located in close...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Suzuki H,Ota M,Meguro A,Katsuyama Y,Kawagoe T,Ishihara M,Asukata Y,Takeuchi M,Ito N,Shibuya E,Nomura E,Uemoto R,Nishide T,Namba K,Kitaichi N,Morimoto S,Kaburaki T,Ando Y,Takenaka S,Nakamura J,Saeki K,Ohno S,In

更新日期：2012-10-11 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:Adult salamander photoreceptors retract existing axons and extend new neuritic processes in vitro. In mammalian retina, similar forms of structural plasticity occur in injury and disease. The authors asked whether RhoA is present in photoreceptor axon terminals and whether activity in the RhoA-ROCK pathway cont...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Fontainhas AM,Townes-Anderson E

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the residual stereo function of a group of 15 patients with strabismic amblyopia, by using motion-in-depth stimuli that allow discrimination of contributions from local disparity as opposed to those from local velocity mechanisms as a function of the rate of depth change. METHODS:The stereo perf...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Hess RF,Mansouri B,Thompson B,Gheorghiu E

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topical administration of 1% vanadate in a formulation designed to enhance penetration lowered intraocular pressure in monkeys' eyes. The decrease in intraocular pressure was associated with significant decreases in aqueous humor flow. Tonographic outflow facility was unaltered by topical vanadate. ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Podos SM,Lee PY,Severin C,Mittag T

更新日期：1984-03-01 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:Neuroretinopathy is increasingly being recognized as an independent cause of vision loss in diabetes. Visual field loss, as detected by frequency doubling technology (FDT)-based visual perimetry, is a sign of neuroretinopathy and occurs in early stages of diabetic retinopathy (DR). Here, we hypothesized that FD...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Bao YK,Yan Y,Gordon M,McGill JB,Kass M,Rajagopal R

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study was conducted to validate a recently described technique for measuring the rates of visual field (VF) decay in glaucoma. METHODS:A pointwise exponential regression (PER) model was used to calculate average rates of faster and slower deteriorating VF components, and that of the entire VF. Rapid progr...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Azarbod P,Mock D,Bitrian E,Afifi AA,Yu F,Nouri-Mahdavi K,Coleman AL,Caprioli J

更新日期：2012-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The profound visual deficits associated with early monocular form deprivation (MD) are caused largely by competitive binocular interactions in the visual cortex. We tested the hypothesis that disrupting normal cortical binocularity prior to the onset of MD would reduce the degree of form deprivation amblyopia compared...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Smith EL 3rd,Harwerth RS,Siderov J,Wingard M,Crawford ML,von Noorden GK

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to elucidate the molecular mechanisms that lead to a dominant nuclear cataract in a mouse harboring the Y118D mutation in the alphaA-crystallin gene. METHODS:The physicochemical properties of alpha-crystallin obtained from mouse lenses with the Y118D mutation as well as a recombinant ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Huang Q,Ding L,Phan KB,Cheng C,Xia CH,Gong X,Horwitz J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To analyze the mechanism of action of adrenomedullin (AM), a peptide recently isolated from human pheochromocytoma, in isolated canine central retinal arteries and to compare the action of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CCRP). METHODS:Changes in isometric tension were recorded in helical strips of the arteri...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Okamura T,Ayajiki K,Kangawa K,Toda N

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To characterize the signaling pathways used by hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) and keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) in human corneal epithelial cells. METHODS:Cultures of SV40 large T antigen-transfected human corneal epithelial cells were treated with recombinant human HGF or KGF at 50 ng/ml to 100 ng/ml for 5...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Liang Q,Mohan RR,Chen L,Wilson SE

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the interaction of M3 muscarinic receptors (M3AChR) and P2X(7) receptors to increase intracellular [Ca2+] ([Ca2+]i) and stimulate protein secretion in rat lacrimal gland cells. METHODS:Exorbital lacrimal glands from male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into pieces or digested with collagenase to ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Dartt DA,Hodges RR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The increase of nerve growth factor (NGF) plasma levels in vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) patients has been demonstrated previously. Results of numerous studies in vitro and in vivo have shown that NGF modulates the synthesis of substance P (SP), a neuropeptide involved in the pathogenesis of human allergic ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Lambiase A,Bonini S,Micera A,Tirassa P,Magrini L,Bonini S,Aloe L

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study observed biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus in contact lens cases and investigated the inhibitory effects of 2,2'-dipyridyl (2DP) and 1,2,3,4,6-penta-O-galloyl-b-D-glucopyranose (PGG). METHODS:Biofilm formation of P. aeruginosa ATCC 9027 and S. aureus ATCC 25923 an...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Cho P,Shi GS,Boost M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to evaluate a DNA dot hybridization assay (DHA) for assessing bacterial bioburden in orthokeratology lens (OK) storage cases. METHODS:Forty-one OK wearers participated in this study. The dot hybridization assay was used to assess the bacterial bioburden of OK after removal and 6-hour ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Kuo MT,Chien CC,Lo J,Hsiao CC,Tseng SL,Lai YH,Fang PC,Chang TC

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The authors recently reported that a severe inflammatory response resulting in substantial loss of acinar cells was induced by a single injection of interleukin-1alpha into the lacrimal gland and that this effect was reversible. The purpose of the present study was to determine the mechanisms involved in lacrim...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Zoukhri D,Fix A,Alroy J,Kublin CL

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:Prostaglandins and other eicosanoids in the trabecular meshwork may play important physiological and pharmacological roles in the aqueous outflow pathway. In the present studies, we employed [14C]-arachidonic acid to explore potentially important pathways for the production of eicosanoids in cultured human trabecular ...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Weinreb RN,Polansky JR,Alvarado JA,Mitchell MD

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) produced in the cells adjacent to excimer laser ablations in the cornea was compared for 193-nm and 248-nm laser wavelengths. UDS is interpreted to indicate the process of excision repair of pyrimidine dimers formed in DNA. 193-nm laser ablation did not produce a statistic...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Nuss RC,Puliafito CA,Dehm E

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Oxidative stress and cellular senescence are known to contribute to the development of AMD; however, the mechanism is not fully understood. This study investigated the role of TGF-β-activated kinase 1 (TAK1) in the senescence of RPE cells as a model for the development of dry AMD. METHODS:Cultured human RPE ce...

journal_title：Investigative ophthalmology & visual science

authors： Dvashi Z,Green Y,Pollack A

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00