Purpose. To evaluate the long-term safety and clinical outcome of phakic Visian toric implantable collamer lens (ICL) insertion after corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL) in progressive keratoconus. Methods. This was a retrospective study of 30 eyes (19 patients), with progressive keratoconus, who underwent sequential CXL followed by Visian toric ICL implantation after 6 months. Results. At bas...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) remains one of the most significant human pathogens since its discovery in 1882. An estimated 1.5 million people died from tubercle bacillus (TB) in 2006, and globally, there were an estimated 9.27 million incident cases of TB in 2007. Glyoxylate bypass pathway occurs in a wide range of pathogens and plays a key role in the pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tubercul...

PURPOSE To review the peer-reviewed literature reporting postoperative complications of the most recent models of Visian Implantable Collamer posterior chamber intraocular lenses (ICL, STAAR Surgical Co). METHODS A literature search of the PubMed database was performed to identify all articles related to ICL complications. Articles were obtained and reviewed to identify those that reported co...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonizes and can persist in the lungs of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients for decades. Adaptation of P. aeruginosa to the CF lung environment causes various genotypic and phenotypic alterations in the bacterium that facilitate persistence. We showed previously that isocitrate lyase (ICL) activity is constitutively upregulated in the P. aeruginosa CF isolate FRD1. We show he...

We determine the contribution of stars in galaxies, intracluster stars, and the intracluster medium to the total baryon budget in nearby galaxy clusters and groups. We find that the baryon mass fraction (fb ≡ Ωb/Ωm) within r500 is constant for systems with M 500 between 6 × 10 13 M⊙ and 1 × 10 M⊙. Although fb is lower than the WMAP value, the shortfall is on the order of both the observational ...

- the case definition for the syndrome of idiopathic cd4+ t-hymphocytopenia (1cl) includes a heterogeneity of disorders. as yet there have been very few published reports of chiulren who meet the whojcdc criteria and it is unclear whether icl is an acquired or inherited disorder. chiulren referred to a pacdiatric immunodeficiency unit between 1991 and 1993 for investigation of immunodeficiency ...

PURPOSE Present a case of dislocation of an Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL) that occurs after blunt trauma and review the published literature on this topic. METHODS Case report and literature review using PubMed. RESULTS A 44 year-old male presented to the emergency department with sudden onset of blurry vision after blunt trauma to the left eye. Three years prior, he had undergone bilater...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Articular chondrocytes dwell in an environment that is continuously changing its osmolarity as a consequence of mechanical loading, yet their volume regulation capabilities (RVD) are not fully understood. This work aimed to determine the osmotic sensitivity of freshly isolated rat chondrocytes, their RVD capabilities and to study the properties of any anion currents associated. ...

The mechanism of resistance to cfj-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) (CDDP) is still controversial, although several kinds of processes have been proposed. For elucidation of the mechanism of CDDP resistance in CDDP-resistant human non-small cell lung cancer cells (PC-9/0.5, 7.1fold resistant), we examined the formation of DNA interstrand cross links (ICL), one kind of DNA damage induced by CDDP, it...

Introduction: The magnitude of bite force that is interpreted as clenching (imagined clenching level: ICL) in patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMD) remains unknown. We aimed to investigate the relationship between ICL and symptoms of TMD to evaluate the suitability of the term clenching for interpreting bite force in these patients. Methods: A total 76 patients (16 men, 60 women; age,...