Media reports suggest that the number of assaults due to penetrating injuries (e.g.: knife attacks, glass assaults) have increased in Queensland in recent years. However, this remains conjecture, since there have been no attempts to evaluate trends in relation to penetrating injuries. The purpose of this report is to describe recent trends in penetrating injuries which resulted in a hospital in...

RATIONALE Penetrating astigmatic keratotomy (penetrating AK) is a well-known method to correct corneal astigmatism but rarely be performed nowadays. This article reevaluated the clinical effectiveness and confounding factors of penetrating AK. PATIENT CONCERNS Penetrating AK has been introduced to serve as one alternative operation for astigmatism correction, and is thought to have the potent...

In this special Frontiers in Microbiology issue focusing on “Global host proteomic responses to virus infection,” Coombs and colleagues (Jiang et al., 2012) make a valiant effort to look deeper into (changes in) the proteome of HeLa cells upon reovirus infection. Using some of the latest proteomic techniques, they present a high quality analysis of quantified alterations in the protein content ...

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a commonly-used geophysical technique, yet the use of water-penetrating (WPR) has been less-well researched and published on. This surprising, given wide GPR on ice success early aquatic experiments in 1970s 1980s. The past 15 years have seen advances modes antenna deployment, understanding limiting environmental conditions applications to geotechnical engineer...

Penetrating neck injuries are commonly related to stab wounds and gunshot wounds in the United States. The injuries are classified by penetration site in terms of the three anatomical zones of the neck. Based on this zonal classification system, penetrating injuries to the head and neck have traditionally been evaluated by conventional angiography and/or surgical exploration. In recent years, m...

PURPOSE Cytokine patterns in the aqueous humor before penetrating keratoplasty might permit us to predict the development of immune reactions. We therefore analyzed ten different cytokines in the aqueous humor of patients before and following penetrating keratoplasty. METHODS We collected aqueous humor from patients undergoing cataract extraction or penetrating keratoplasty (baseline, n=197),...