BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to estimate mean central corneal thickness (CCT) and determine whether there are any correlations between CCT, age, and sex in the adult Lithuanian population. METHODS A total of 1,650 Caucasians of Lithuanian origin (aged 18-89 years) comprising 688 (41.7%) men and 962 (58.3%) women were examined. Subjects were stratified by age into seven groups. CCT...

Eukaryotic ectotherms of the Southern Ocean face energetic challenges to protein folding assisted by the cytosolic chaperonin CCT. We hypothesize that CCT and its client proteins (CPs) have co-evolved molecular adaptations that facilitate CCT-CP interaction and the ATP-driven folding cycle at low temperature. To test this hypothesis, we compared the functional and structural properties of CCT-C...

PURPOSE To measure the mean cerebral circulation time (CCT) in patients with symptomatic vasospasm stemming from subarachnoid hemorrhage and to determine any change after papaverine treatment. METHODS We studied 27 patients who received intraarterial papaverine from November 1992 to August 1995 to determine the CCT in 59 carotid territories. CCT was measured from the first image in which cont...

PURPOSE We investigated the distribution of central corneal thickness (CCT), and its association with age, sex, intraocular pressure (IOP), anterior chamber depth (ACD), axial length (AL), and the presence of systemic hypertension and diabetes in a Korean population. METHODS Our study is a population-based glaucoma prevalence study of residents aged ≥40 years in Namil-meon area, located in ce...

BACKGROUND Estimates of intraocular pressure (IOP) are influenced directly by the central corneal thickness (CCT). We assume and apply a single value for CCT (520 μm) in applanation tonometry estimates, although there is compelling evidence that CCT varies between individuals. OBJECTIVE To determine the influence of CCT and other factors on IOP among Ethiopians. METHODS A cross sectional st...

We examined the effect of lipoprotein deprivation on the expression of the rate-regulatory enzyme involved in phosphatidylcholine (PtdCho) synthesis, phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase (CCT), within an alveolar type II epithelial cell line (MLE-12). Compared with cells exposed to 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS, control), cells cultured with lipoprotein-deficient serum (LPDS) for 72 h had a 150% i...

PURPOSE To investigate the repeatability and reproducibility of intraocular pressure (IOP) and central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements using a noncontact tono/pachymeter (NT-530P) and to assess the correlation of CCT with IOP. METHODS Forty-six eyes of healthy volunteers were measured by two examiners. Three consecutive measurements per eye were performed. Repeatability was assessed usin...

Purpose: Comparison of the effect of selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) in glaucoma patients with high and low central corneal thickness (CCT). Materials and methods: Clinical trial on 72 glaucoma patients, controlled on medication that received SLT as replacement therapy. We compared the effect of SLT on patients with CCT ≥ 550 μm with patients having CCT <550 μm. Primary end point was intr...

AIM To investigate the differences in central corneal thickness (CCT) and curvature in myopic patients with different genders between Mongolian and Han nationalities in the Inner Mongolia region. METHODS Patients with myopia, among whom 122 cases (244 eyes) were Mongolian and 150 cases (300 eyes) were Han, were selected. Pentacam was used to measure the corneal curvature, whereas CCT was dete...