Apoptosis in cytomegalovirus retinitis associated with AIDS.

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate whether retinal impairment was affected by age of rats in acute glaucoma model. METHODS:Young adult and aged rats were randomly divided into normal control, 45 mmHg, 60 mmHg and 90 mmHg groups. Intraocular pressures (IOP) of rats were acutely elevated to 45 mmHg, 60 mmHg and 90 mmHg, respectivel...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Tan C,Hu T,Peng MC,Liu SL,Tong JB,Ouyang W,Le Y

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF THE STUDY:To assess differences in healthy eyes in volume (CV) and choroidal thicknesses (CT) across all macular Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) areas measured by swept source (SS)-OCT and spectral domain (SD)-OCT with enhanced depth imaging (EDI). MATERIALS AND METHODS:One hundred and fi...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Pinilla I,Sanchez-Cano A,Insa G,Bartolomé I,Perdices L,Orduna-Hospital E

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To characterize the effects that mode of sampling and overnight eye closure have on the nature of caseinolytic activity recovered in tear fluid. METHODS:Reflex, open and closed (R, O and C) eye tear fluids were collected by microcapillary tubes or from the inferior formix by Schirmer strip. Microcapillary coll...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Sakata M,Sack RA,Sathe S,Holden B,Beaton AR

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We adapted a previously described procedure to quantitate collagen in corneal tissue sections prepared from paraffin-embedded samples. The method entailed staining the deparaffinized tissue sections with Sirius red, eluting the bound dye with NaOH-methanol, and estimating the color in a spectrophotometer as an indicat...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Yue BY,Sugar J,Schrode K

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental model of optic nerve ischemia was designed in the rabbit to determine early biochemical alterations, i.e.--changes of high energy phosphate metabolites (ATP and phosphocreatine)--in occlusive and peri-occlusive areas. Vascular occlusion provoked a rapid fall of ATP and phosphocreatine in the optic nerv...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Vériac S,Tissié G,Bonne C

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Oxidative stress is considered a major factor in the deterioration of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells in dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The MAPK ERK1/2 can be activated by oxidative stress, may exert both pro- and anti-apoptotic functions, and has recently been proposed as a major factor in ...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Koinzer S,Reinecke K,Herdegen T,Roider J,Klettner A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the immediate effect of 3% diquafosol ophthalmic solution on tear MUC5AC concentration, periodic acid-Schiff (PAS)-positive goblet cells, and tear film stability in normal and keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) rat models. METHODS:Rats were divided into normal and KCS groups. 3% of diquafosol solutio...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Choi KE,Song JS,Kang B,Eom Y,Kim HM

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To test if nicotine counteracts the dampening effect of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection of NF-kappaB in retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells, thereby increasing the permissiveness of RPE cells for HCMV replication. METHODS:Human ARPE-19 cells were transfected with NF-kappaB luciferase DNA, inoculated ...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Buckner AE,Dix RD

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the association between macular pigment optical density (MPOD) and rod-mediated dark adaptation (RMDA) in persons ≥60 years old with normal maculas as determined by an accepted color fundus photography grading system. METHODS:This cross-sectional analysis used baseline data from eyes in the Alabama ...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Zarubina AV,Huisingh CE,Clark ME,Sloan KR,McGwin G Jr,Crosson JN,Curcio CA,Owsley C

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate serum and aqueous humor levels of fetuin-A in patients with pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEXS) in comparison with those of age- and sex-matched healthy subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This prospective study included 25 patients with PEXS and 25 control subjects who were undergoing cataract surgery w...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Yuksel N,Takmaz T,Ozel Turkcu U,Ergin M,Altinkaynak H,Bilgihan A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate choroidal thickness (CT) and retinal morphological changes in eyes with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) following ranibizumab or aflibercept intravitreal treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This was a prospective, observational, comparative study where 76 eyes of 76 consecutive pat...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Gharbiya M,Giustolisi R,Marchiori J,Bruscolini A,Mallone F,Fameli V,Nebbioso M,Abdolrahimzadeh S

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the multifocal electroretinogram (mfERG) and subjective function in early age-related maculopathy (ARM). METHODS:Seventeen subjects with early ARM with visual acuity (VA) of 6/12 or better and 20 age-matched control subjects were examined. We assessed mfERGs, high and low contrast distance VA, n...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Feigl B,Brown B,Lovie-Kitchin J,Swann P

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunochemical reactivities of the alpha A and alpha B subunits from bovine alpha-crystallin have been compared using 5 monoclonal antibodies and 2 polyvalent antisera. Each subunit bound the same maximum amount of antibody, regardless of its source, and each subunit was able to completely displace alpha-crystalli...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Butler DM,Augusteyn RC

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loteprednol etabonate (LE) is a new corticosteroid based on the "soft drug" concept. Contact lens-associated giant papillary conjunctivitis (GPC) was studied as a model for the anti-inflammatory effect of LE. Patients with bilateral GPC were enrolled in a multicenter, randomized, double-masked, placebo-controlled, par...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Bartlett JD,Howes JF,Ghormley NR,Amos JF,Laibovitz R,Horwitz B

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In primates, ciliary muscle contraction causes accommodation and facilitates aqueous outflow. In living rhesus monkeys, accommodative, outflow facility, and ciliary muscle movement responses to cholinergic agonists all decline with age. We developed an apparatus to determine in vitro whether the latter is related to i...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Poyer JF,Kaufman PL,Flügel C

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate microscopic changes in corneal morphology in chloroquine (CQ)-treated patients without corneal abnormalities being diagnosable by slit lamp microscopy. METHODS:Thirty-six eyes of 36 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were divided into two groups: group 1 included 26 patients receiving chloroqui...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Ma X,He L,He D,Xu J

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In earlier experiments on the role of the cytolytic toxin pneumolysin in ocular infections with pneumococcus, we found that a strain carrying a deletion in the gene encoding pneumolysin was considerably less virulent than wild type when tested in an intracorneal model of keratitis in the rabbit. To confirm this result...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Johnson MK,Hobden JA,O'Callaghan RJ,Hill JM

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To quantify the impact of posterior cornea on toric IOL calculation accuracy using Placido-topography of anterior corneal surface and Scheimpflug measurements of corneal thickness. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Three-hundred seventy-nine non-selected eyes undergoing cataract surgery with non-toric intraocular lens (IO...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Preussner PR,Hoffmann P,Wahl J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ocular penetration pathways of three alpha 2-adrenergic agents (p-aminoclonidine, AGN 190342, and clonidine) were investigated in rabbits both in vitro and in vivo. The corneal permeabilities of the compounds correlated positively with their octanol/water distribution coefficients. The ocular drug absorption via c...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Chien DS,Homsy JJ,Gluchowski C,Tang-Liu DD

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Abstract Purpose of the Study: Protein tyrosine phosphatase σ (PTPσ) acts as a neuronal receptor for chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs). CSPGs have inhibitory effects on experience-dependent plasticity and usually form lattice-like cell coatings that surround the parvalbumin (PV) interneurons in the v...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Liu H,Xu H,Yu T,Yao J,Zhao C,Yin ZQ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate differences of phagocytic capacities in rat retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells, iris pigment epithelial (IPE) cells, and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) cDNA-transfected IPE (bFGF-IPE) cells in vitro. METHODS:The RPE cells and IPE cells were isolated from adult Long Evans rats' eyes. The ...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Sakuragi M,Tomita H,Abe T,Tamai M

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study was carried out in order to determine the most potent and novel uveitopathogenic sites of recoverin using synthetic peptides. METHODS:Several synthetic peptides containing the recoverin sequence plus adjuvants were injected into Lewis rats, and the uveitopathogenic sequence was defined, clinically, ...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Ohkoshi M,Abe T,Satoh N,Nakajima A,Sakuragi S

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, all the structural features of non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy have been demonstrated in mice fed 30% galactose for 21-26 months. To determine whether changes in retinal matrix protein mRNA levels occur early in the course of murine diabetes we used a competitive RT-PCR method to quantitate retinal mR...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Nishikawa T,Giardino I,Edelstein D,Brownlee M

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Taurolidine is a broad-spectrum, non antibiotic antimicrobial agent, not previously tested against the common causes of bacterial keratitis. This study, employing an experimental rabbit model of Staphylococcus aureus keratitis, investigated the effectiveness of topical taurolidine in reducing the number of bact...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Oguz H,Ozbilge H,Oguz E,Gurkan T

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the effects of a subconjunctival injection of mitomycin-C (MMC) on iridial circulation in rabbits. METHODS:Dutch rabbits anesthetized with pentobarbital received a 0.2-ml subconjunctival injection of 0.4 mg/ml or 0.1 mg/ml MMC; the contralateral eye received 0.2 ml physiological saline. Intraocula...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Tomidokoro A,Araie M,Tamaki Y,Muta K

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to characterize a standardized porcine ex-vivo testing system for intraocular pressure (IOP) monitoring after vitrectomy with different endotamponades. METHODS:Twenty-four pig eyes, six per endotamponade group were obtained immediately postmortem. After pars plana vitrectomy, vitreous...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Ebner M,Mariacher S,Hurst J,Szurman P,Schnichels S,Spitzer MS,Januschowski K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the suitablity of commercially available moisture retention eyewear for treating evaporative dry eye. METHODS:Eleven patients with evaporative dry eyes were prescibed moisture retention eyewear for 3 months in addition to regular lubricant eye drops. Frequency and severity of dry eye symptoms, c...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Waduthantri S,Tan CH,Fong YW,Tong L

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Based on the relationship between keratoconus and dry eye, the aim of this study was to evaluate changes in signs and symptoms of dry eye in keratoconus patients before and after intrastromal corneal ring surgery. METHODS:Fifteen keratoconus patients were enrolled in Fundación Jiménez-Díaz of Madrid and Univer...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Carracedo G,Recchioni A,Alejandre-Alba N,Martin-Gil A,Batres L,Morote IJ,Pintor J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:There is a substantial literature showing that the selective estrogen receptor modulator tamoxifen can block swelling-activated chloride channels, such as those in astrocytes. This study aimed to test the hypothesis that anatomic characteristics consistent with swelling may be measured within the optic nerve he...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Eisner A,O'Malley JP,Incognito LJ,Toomey MD,Samples JR

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate changes in biometric parameters in myopic eyes. MATERIALS AND METHODS:412 eyes of 412 young myopic patients underwent ophthalmic examinations including assessments of refractive error, axial length (AL), anterior chamber depth (ACD), and central corneal thickness (CCT). By using spectral domain opt...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Chung HJ,Park CK

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00