PURPOSE This study aimed to determine if rebamipide eyedrops can improve ocular surface damage caused by the use of glaucoma eyedrops. METHODS Female Kbl:Dutch rabbits were used to evaluate glaucoma eyedrop-induced ocular surface damage; one eye of each rabbit was untreated and the other was administered glaucoma eyedrops for 30 days. To evaluate the effects of rebamipide on ocular surface da...

Aim: To study the effect of the treatment of dry eye in Sjögren’s syndrome patients with hypotonic or isotonic hyaluronate eye drops. Methods: 40 Sjögren’s syndrome patients were divided in two groups and treated as follows: group 1 with hypotonic (150 mOsm/l) 0.4% hyaluronate eye drops; group 2 with isotonic 0.4% hyaluronate eye drops. The eye drops were instilled six times a day for 90 days. ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the tear clearance in patients with dry eye syndrome using quantitative lacrimal scintigraphy. MATERIALS AND METHODS We investigated 21 patients (42 eyes; 18 women, 3 men; mean age, 63.19 +/- 13.33 years) with dry eye syndrome. Additionally, for the sake of comparison, 12 normal subjects of the same age group (24 eyes; 10 women, 2 men; mean age,...

AIM To study the effect of the treatment of dry eye in Sjögren's syndrome patients with hypotonic or isotonic hyaluronate eye drops. METHODS 40 Sjögren's syndrome patients were divided in two groups and treated as follows: group 1 with hypotonic (150 mOsm/l) 0.4% hyaluronate eye drops; group 2 with isotonic 0.4% hyaluronate eye drops. The eye drops were instilled six times a day for 90 days. ...

AIMS Evaluation of the morphological damage to the ocular surface of patients operated for biliopancreatic diversion for pathological obesity and the correlation of impression cytology with vitamin A plasma levels, adaptometry, and other general variables. METHODS 48 patients (15 males, 33 females, age range 21-73) and 34 normal subjects were examined with fluorescein and rose bengal, a plasm...

The cellular basis of reactive oxygen intermediate-induced arrhythmias was investigated in isolated rabbit ventricular cells using the whole-cell voltage- and current-clamp techniques. Singlet oxygen and superoxide were generated by the photoactivation of rose bengal. Single ventricular cells exposed to rose bengal (10-100 nM) exhibited spontaneous membrane potential fluctuations at plateau pot...

When brucellosis false positive serological reactions happen in cattle, the serial use of pairs of specificity-correlated serological tests (rose bengal, complement fixation, competitive ELISA) results in specificities lower than expected. In this situation, highly specific tests, such as the indirect ELISA used alone, may be more adequate than serial testing.

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: AAU: Addis Ababa University; AFC: Age at First Calving; AFS: Age at First Service; CFT: Complement Fixation Test; CI: Calving Interval; CVMA: College of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture; NSC: Number of Services per Conception; PGF2α: Prostaglandin F2 Alpha; PPA: Post-Partum Anoestrus; RBPT: Rose Bengal Plate Test; RP: Retained Plac...

All-in-one: A new and general one-pot reaction sequence initiated by singlet oxygen that transforms simple furan substrates into complex nitrogen-bearing aromatic polycycles having all the structural features of a number of important natural products (for example, the erythrina alkaloids; see scheme, RB = rose Bengal) is reported. The reaction sequence itself uses mild conditions and has wide f...