purpose: to compare the safety, efficacy, and visual results of laser in situ keratomileusis (lasik) in eyes with and without previous scleral buckling surgery in the same individuals. methods: in a prospective clinical trial, 14 eyes of 7 patients with myopic refractive error and history of scleral buckling in one eye, underwent lasik surgery in both eyes according to a standard surgical proto...

PURPOSE In the rd/rd mouse, the cell death of rod photoreceptors has been correlated to abnormal levels of the cyclic nucleotide cGMP within photoreceptors. Given that cGMP is required for opening of the cationic channels, there is the possibility that a high cGMP concentration would maintain these channels open, at a high energy cost for the retina. METHODS We investigated whether cation cha...

Background: Diabetes is a global health problem that its prevalence is increasing rapidly. Rosa damascena extract has shown to have an intensive non-competitive inhibitory effect on α-glucosidase in an animal study. The aim of this study was to assess the safety and efficacy of Rosa damascena (RD) Mill in diabetic patients and healthy subjects. Method...

Purpose A one-day conference organised by the University of Essex and Consortium Therapeutic Communities, 10 December, 2021 with theme, “The Unconscious Organisations”. Presentations discussions throughout had aim generating ideas sharing knowledge about unconscious how this can inform practitioners working in therapeutic communities other organisations meeting challenge emotional distress. Des...

conclusions kannada children with rd were particularly poor on simultaneous and successive processing. our results support the heterogeneity view of rd. results independent-samples t tests (two-tailed) showed significant difference between the groups on all the pass component subtests. the pass scores of children with rd were scattered unevenly around the average to well below the average range...