The purpose of this investigation was to study and compare the electrophoretic patterns of optic lensproteins of different species of domestic animals at pre- and post-natal ages. Optic lenses were removed from the embryo or adult sheep, cattle, goat, camel and chicken at the slaughter-house then homogenized and subjected to sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). I...

introduction proton therapy is used to treat malignant tumors such as melanoma inside the eye. proton particles are adjusted according to various parameters such as tumor size and position and patient’s distance from the proton source. the purpose of this study was to assess absorbed doses in eyes and various tumors found in the area of sclera and choroid and the adjacent tissues in radiotherap...

BACKGROUND Radiotherapy plays an important role in the management of most malignant and many benign primary central nervous system (CNS) tumors. Radiotherapy affects both tumor cells and uninvolved normal cells; so, it is important to estimate absorbed dose to organs at risk in this kind of treatment. The aim of this study was to determine the absorbed dose to chiasma, lens, optic nerve, retina...

Echium amoenum is an Iranian indigenous medicinal plant. In this research the effect of hydroalchoholic extract of this plant on sodium-selenite induced cataract formation was evaluated. Fifty five white rat pups were selected and divided into six groups. In first group (control 1) no elements injected. Second group (control 2) was received normal saline on 11-18 postpartum. Hydroalchoholic ext...

purpose: to evaluate the clinical manifestations and results of lensectomy in patients with hereditary lens subluxation at labbafinejad medical center, tehran-iran from 1996 t 2003. method: in an interventional case series, records of patients with hereditary lens subluxation who had undergone lensectomy were reviewed. patients with at least 6 months of follow up were included. background disea...

UV irradiation has the potential to induce the development of lens opacities. This has been demonstrated since long with animal experiments. Unfortunately these animal cataracts did not explain or elucidate the epidemiological observation that the frequency of human cataracts--such as the so called senile cataract--is remarkably higher in regions with increased cosmic UV irradiation or in the p...

AIM The authors evaluated radiation and skin doses absorbed by the eye lens, as well as the parotid and thyroid glands, during a low dose maxillary spiral computed tomography (CT). METHODS Three spiral CTs were carried out, one after the other, changing from time to time MAS, pitch factor, Kv and consequently, CTDI/Vol, until the minimum values detectable by the equipment were reached (MAS 28...

Over the past century, ionizing radiation has been known to induce cataracts in the crystalline lens of the eye, but its mechanistic underpinnings remain incompletely understood. This study is the first to report the clonogenic survival of irradiated primary normal human lens epithelial cells and stimulation of its proliferation. Here we used two primary normal human cell strains: HLEC1 lens ep...