Dry eye disease (DED) is a common chronic ophthalmic disorder, and there no effective treatment to cure it. It urgent find new antidry compounds. Here, the effects underlying mechanisms of tilapia skin peptides (TSP) on DED were investigated. In vitro, human corneal epithelial cells (HCECs) cultured in hypertonic medium containing TSP for 12 h. The MTT assay, calcein-AM/PI staining, reactive ox...

Nine preparations of six antiseptic substances were applied to the perineum of pregnant women at term in order to assess their efficacy in sterilizing the skin. The efficacy, in descending order of effectiveness, after three minutes' exposure, was p-chlor-m-xylenol in alcohol (surgical Dettol); chlorhexidine gluconate in detergent (Hibiscrub), followed by the aqueous preparations p-chlor-m-xyle...