Antimicrobial activity and in vitro corneal epithelial toxicity of antimicrobial agents for gram-positive corneal pathogens.

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate glaucoma progression and its relationship with corrected and uncorrected intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with a history of refractive corneal surgery (RCS). METHODS:Totally, 56 eyes of 56 primary open-angle glaucoma patients who had a history of RCS were included. Mean keratometry and cen...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Kwon J,Sung KR,Jo J,Yang SH

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Avascular tissues can be used to identify antilymph- or antihemangiogenic factors. The human sclera-the outer covering layer of the eye, lacks lymphatic vessels and contains only a superficial network of blood vessels and was used here to identify endogenous antiangiogenic factors. METHODS:Expression levels of...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Schlereth SL,Karlstetter M,Hos D,Matthaei M,Cursiefen C,Heindl LM

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the unsutured partial thickness penetrating wounds of the cornea, the epithelium migrates over the wounded stromal surface prior to the onset of stromal regeneration. To determine the possible affects of the epithelial ingrowth on the organization of the stromal scar tissues, the healing of unsutured and sutured wo...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Melles GR,SundarRaj N,Binder PS,van der Weiden MM,Wijdh RH,Beekhuis WH,Anderson JA

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A pilot study was conducted to evaluate human corneal epithelial cell shedding in response to wearing a silicone hydrogel contact lens/solution combination inducing corneal staining. The nature of ex vivo collected cells staining with fluorescein was also examined. METHODS:A contralateral eye study was conduct...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Gorbet M,Peterson R,McCanna D,Woods C,Jones L,Fonn D

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined jun-B gene expression in the rat retina after a focal retinal injury by in situ hybridization. 30 min after producing a penetrating retinal wound, the retina showed the expression of jun-B mRNA intensively in the inner nuclear layer (INL) and relatively sparsely in the ganglion cell layer. The double-label...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Ohki K,Yoshida K,Yamakawa A,Harada T,Matsuda H,Imaki J

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Importance: To analyze the characteristics and risk factors for pupillary capture (PC) of the intraocular lens (IOL) in congenital ectopia lentis (CEL) patients.Methods: Data of CEL patients who underwent lens extraction and intraocular implantation from 2013 to 2016 at Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center in China were collec...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Jin G,Lin J,Xiao B,Chen A,Young CA,Zheng D

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diabetes has been associated with decline in accommodative function in some ethnic groups. This outcome, however, could differ since ethnic variations in accommodation have been noted. This study investigated the relationship between plasma sugar level on subjective accommodative amplitude and accommodative ...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Abokyi S,Ilechie A,Asaam KA,Ntodie M

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose/Aim: Corneal abrasions and nonhealing corneal epithelial defects are common conditions that cause pain and sometimes are slow to heal. Histatins, a family of histidine-rich peptides, have been implicated in oral and skin epithelial wound healing, and have been shown to be effective in vitro in human corneal ep...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Oydanich M,Epstein SP,Gadaria-Rathod N,Guers JJ,Fernandez KB,Asbell PA

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Transplantation of in vitro cultured limbal epithelial stem cells (LESCs) is a treatment widely used for LESC deficiency. However, the number of limbal tissue donors is limited, and protocols for LESC cultivation often include compounds and/or feeder layers that can induce side effects and/or increase the cost ...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： López-Paniagua M,Nieto-Miguel T,de la Mata A,Galindo S,Herreras JM,Corrales RM,Calonge M

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal degeneration is a leading cause of untreatable blindness in the industrialised world. It is typically irreversible and there are few curative treatments available. The use of stem cells to generate new retinal neurons for transplantation purposes has received significant interest in recent years and is beginni...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Langhe R,Pearson RA

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We performed nailfold capillary microscopy to explore microvasculature abnormalities in uveitis overall and uveitis stratified in various ways. METHODS:This was a cross-sectional, case-control, observational study. One hundred and seven uveitis patients and 130 control subjects were included. We used a JH-1004...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Chen X,Yao X,Chi Y,Guo C,Zhang J,Li J,Zhang S,Rong X,Pasquale LR,Yang L

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured retinal glial cells from the rat are responsive to modulation by vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP). VIP (1 X 10(-6) M) elevated the intracellular cyclic AMP concentration from the basal level of (4.4-11.1) p mole/mg protein to (354-440) p mole/mg protein in three minutes at 25 degrees C. The half-maximal co...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Koh SW,Roberge FG

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane response to the various temperatures as one of the external factors was investigated in the lenses of the poikilothermal animal and the homothermal animal. The rainbow trout lens was used as the poikilothermal material and the rat lens as the homothermal material. The rainbow trout lens maintained in vitro it...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Iwata S

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We wished to establish which matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and metalloproteinase inhibitors (TIMPs) were present in human interphotoreceptor matrix (IPM) and vitreous. METHODS:IPM and vitreous were obtained from postmortem human eyebank eyes. Western immunoblots were probed with antibodies against human MMP...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Plantner JJ,Smine A,Quinn TA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To optimize cultured human corneal endothelial cell (cHCEC) sheet transplantation technique for maintenance of cHCEC viability. MATERIALS AND METHODS:cHCEC sheets cultured on a collagen scaffold were covered with or without Viscoat® and exposed to humidified air in the incubator. cHCEC sheets with or without V...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Yamaguchi M,Shima N,Kimoto M,Ebihara N,Murakami A,Yamagami S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the long-term outcomes and recurrence rate of extensive versus limited subconjunctival pterygium excision with conjunctival autograft. METHODS:This retrospective study included 135 consecutive patients (161 eyes) who had pterygium excision with conjunctival autograft at the cornea performed at the c...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Bahar I,Kaiserman I,Weisbrod M,McAllum P,Slomovic A

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:Steroids are widely used in the prevention of corneal neovascularization in a wide range of natural and experimental situations. However, no information is available on their effect on the growth of the individual limbal blood vascular cells or of lymphatic cells involved in corneal neovascularization. In addition, tr...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Boneham GC,Collin HB

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose/Aim: The goal of this study is to reveal how age-related changes in phospholipid (PL) composition in the fiber cell plasma membranes of the human eye lens affect the cholesterol (Chol) content at which Chol bilayer domains (CBDs) and Chol crystals start to form.Materials and Methods: Saturation-recovery electr...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Mainali L,Pasenkiewicz-Gierula M,Subczynski WK

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity of RNA polymerases I, II and III (distinguished using alpha-amanitin) and activity of DNA polymerases alpha and beta (distinguished using N-ethylmaleimide) were assayed for varying intervals and at varying substrate (UTP or dTTP) concentrations in the purified nuclear fraction from corneal epithelium of carba...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Colley AM,Law ML,Drake LA,Cavanagh HD

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of hyaluronan (HA) and chondroitin sulfate (CS) in rabbit tears were determined using high performance liquid chromatography. The tears were taken from both normal eyes and eyes with a corneal epithelial defect. The concentration of CS was 7.61 times higher than that of HA in the tears of normal eye...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Miyauchi S,Morita M,Kuramoto K,Horie K

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the role of PKCγ in the regulation of gap junction coupling in the normal lens, we have compared the properties of coupling in lenses from wild type (WT) and PKC-γ knockout (KO) mice. METHODS:Western blotting, confocal immunofluorescence microscopy, immunoprecipitation, RT-PCR and quantitative rea...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Das S,Wang H,Molina SA,Martinez-Wittinghan FJ,Jena S,Bossmann LK,Miller KA,Mathias RT,Takemoto DJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We located immunohistochemically the matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) -1, -2, -3 and -9 and the tissue inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinases (TIMP) -1 and -2 in the fibrous capsule of patients with intraocular lenses (IOLs). METHODS:During vitreoretinal surgery in 10 patients we obtained post-cataract surgery...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Kawashima Y,Saika S,Miyamoto T,Yamanaka O,Okada Y,Tanaka S,Ohnishi Y

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Whereas many previous studies have identified the association between sustained near work and myopia, few have assessed the influence of concomitant levels of cognitive effort. This study investigates the effect of cognitive effort on near-work induced transient myopia (NITM). METHODS:Subjects comprised of six...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Wolffsohn JS,Gilmartin B,Thomas R,Mallen EA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the repeatability of macular and peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness measurements made using swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) and automated segmentation. Measurements were made in non-diabetic controls and in patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR) with or w...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Min JK,Lee S,Kim JS,Woo JM,Yang HS

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Pseudoexfoliation (PXF) is a microfibrillopathy involving disordered elastogenesis. Abnormal extracellular matrix (ECM) production underlies the pathophysiology of PXF. The enzyme Lysyl oxidase (LOX) and its isoforms are known to cross-link the elastin and collagen. Though the etiopathogensis of PXF is not well...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Gayathri R,Coral K,Sharmila F,Sripriya S,Sripriya K,Manish P,Shantha B,Ronnie G,Vijaya L,Narayanasamy A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cornea endothelial cells sensitized with rose bengal and exposed to light demonstrated a wavelength dependent alteration in physiological response. Corneas exposed to 549 millimicron swelled at rates similar to controls exposed to identical energy levels of incandescent light. Corneas exposed to 451, 500, 612, and 651...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Hull DS,Csukas S,Green K

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Phoria is used in the diagnosis of binocular dysfunctions, such as convergence insufficiency. A common treatment for convergence insufficiency is vision therapy, yet it is controversial whether the phoria changes as a result of rehabilitation. Phoria can vary due to the duration and/or the type of prior visual ...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Kim EH,Alvarez TL

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Langerhans cells (LC) appear to have a role in the processing of antigens presented through cutaneous surfaces. In most species LC are found in the conjunctiva and limbal epithelium but are rarely found in the central cornea. A quantitative study of corneal LC was performed in guinea pigs and rabbits with HSV-1 kerati...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Asbell PA,Kamenar T

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Nitric oxide production can cause either apoptotic or necrotic cell death through oxidative stress. We aimed to investigate the nitrite oxide metabolites (NOx) and nitrite levels in the aqueous humor of rabbit eyes after different methods of corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Twenty-fo...

journal_title：Current eye research

authors： Yuksel N,Ozel-Turkcu U,Yalinbas D,Novruzlu S,Bilgihan A,Bilgihan K

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00