BACKGROUND involutional lower eyelid entropion is a common ophthalmic condition requiring surgical correction. OBJECTIVE to compare the efficacy of lid everting sutures in the management ofinvolutional lower lid entropion using 4-0 silk versus 4-0 chromic catgut. MATERIALS AND METHODS fifty eyes with involutional lower eyelid entropion were enrolled into the study and divided randomly into ...

Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) play a crucial role in regulating cell proliferation and differentiation. The aim of this study was to examine the potential relationship between serum IGF-I levels and breast cancer risk. To do this, we studied liver-specific IGF-I gene-deleted (LID) mice, in which circulating IGF-I levels are 25% of that in control mice. Mammary tumors were induced in two wa...

Ideal Connes-amenability of dual Banach algebras was investigated in [17] by A. Minapoor, A. Bodaghi and D. Ebrahimi Bagha. They studied weak∗continuous derivations from dual Banach algebras into their weak∗-closed two- sided ideals. This work considers weak∗-continuous derivations of dual triangular Banach algebras into their weak∗-closed two- sided ideals . We investigate when weak∗continuous...

purpose: to compare mersilene mesh and autogenous fascia lata in the management of low-function ptosis. methods: a randomized clinical trial was performed on 31 eyelids with poor levator function. patients were randomly assigned to two groups: 16 eyelids in the mersilene mesh group and 15 eyelids in the autogenous fascia lata group. results: nine patients with congenital unilateral and 11 patie...

Lipases are important industrial enzymes. Most of the lipases operate at lipid-water interfaces enabled by a mobile lid domain located over the active site. Lid protects the active site and hence responsible for catalytic activity. In pure aqueous media, the lid is predominantly closed, whereas in the presence of a hydrophobic layer, it is partially opened. Hence, the lid controls the enzyme ac...

Levodopa is the most effective therapy for the motor deficits of Parkinson's disease (PD), but long term treatment leads to the development of L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia (LID). Our previous studies indicate enhanced excitability of striatal cholinergic interneurons (ChIs) in mice expressing LID and reduction of LID when ChIs are selectively ablated. Recent gene expression analysis indicates that...

In this paper we propose the use of a lazy learning technique called LID for discovering patterns in the Toxicology dataset. LID classifies examples and builds an explanation of that classification. We analyzed the Toxicology dataset using a two-step proces: first we use LID for classifying all the cases in the dataset. Then we select a subset of explanations and use them as patterns that captu...