There has been the unsubstantiated clinical impression that laser refractive surgery accelerates cataract development along with solid experimental data about the cataractogenic effects of excimer laser treatment. We present the first documented case of significant cataract formation in a young myope after repeat excimer laser ablation necessitating phacoemulsification with a posterior chamber ...

timolol is a non-selective beta-adrenergic receptor antagonist administered for treating glaucoma, heart attacks and hypertension. in the present study, we set out to determine whether or not timolol can provoke cataract formation, thus the influence of timolol on the amyloid-type aggregation of crystallin was investigated. we then provided experimental evidence of crystallin aggregation and it...

Introduction: Cataract is a common disease across the world and the most common cause of vision loss and blindness. Several factors contribute to the disease, the most important of which is aging. Other contributors include sex, smoking, sunlight, place of residence, family, job, and systemic disease. This study was aimed to enquire into the epidemiology of cataract cases referred to Noor Ophth...

This literature review is aimed at the evaluation of the potential for cataract prevention in Europe. It was performed using PubMed with Mesh and free-text terms. Studies included were (i) performed on a population of Caucasian origin at an age range of 40-95 years, (ii) cataract was clinically verified, (iii) drug record of prescriptions, their indication, a record of every diagnosis, dosage a...

S, 'treptozotocin, an antibiotic produced from Streptomyces achromogenes, is now being used frequently for the production of experimental cataract." The exact mechanism of this cataract formation has not yet been determined. Streptozotocin has two distinct properties, either of which it was considered could be responsible for the cataract formation. First, Streptozotocin possesses the property ...

Aim: Allylmercaptocaptopril (AMC) is a covalently bonded product of allicin and captopril has been evaluated for its anticataract activity against selenite induced cataract in experimental animals. We wanted to evaluate its anticataract potential in galactosemic cataract to elucidate biochemical mechanism to appraise its activity. Method: We examined the protective effect of AMC in both in vitr...

Cataract is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide. A computer-aided approach to assess nuclear cataract automatically and objectively is proposed in this paper. An enhanced Active Shape Model (ASM) is investigated to extract robust lens contour from slit-lamp images. The mean intensity in the lens area, the color information on the central posterior subcapsular reflex, and the profil...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the cataract preventive effect of dietary histidine regimes in adult Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in seawater, both through manipulating the dietary histidine level and feeding period. Mean body weight of individually tagged Atlantic salmon at the start of the experiment was 1662 (sd 333) g. Low prevalence of mild cataracts were recorded in th...