Intraocular lenses (IOLs) are implanted during cataract surgery. For optimum results, stable positioning of the IOL in capsular bag is important. Wound-healing events following surgery lead to modification and secondary visual loss due posterior capsule opacification. At present, it unclear how these biological can affect stability within bag. In present study, a human vitro graded culture mode...

Secondary visual loss occurs in millions of patients due to a wound-healing response, known as posterior capsule opacification (PCO), following cataract surgery. An intraocular lens (IOL) is implanted into residual lens tissue, known as the capsular bag, following cataract removal. Standard IOLs allow the anterior and posterior capsules to become physically connected. This places pressure on th...

We aimed in this experiment to compare the growth characteristics of Spirulina, which was cultivated in different culture vessels under greenhouse condition. Three types of culture vessels, i.e. transparent jars, polyethylene bags and raceway ponds, were used in the experiment. The jar cultures supported higher cell densities due to their higher culture temperature compared to the others. The d...

A 72-year-old female bladder cancer patient presented with a history of ileal conduit urinary diversion; a urethral balloon catheter was inserted to control her urinary tract stoma. The patient, who reported a foul odor emanating from her urine for several days, visited our hospital as an outpatient when her urine bag developed a purple hue, although there was no change to the color of her urin...

Purple urine bag syndrome is a rare but dangerous entity that indicates an important colonization of the urinary tract by multiple multiresistant bacteria in most cases. The low incidence means this not only underdiagnosed also treated erroneously. culture, as well general test, are key to its correct diagnosis and treatment.

INTRODUCTION Pre-operative limb preparation (PLP) usually involves lifting the limb and holding it in a fixed ‘static’ posture for several minutes. This is hazardous to theatre staff. Furthermore, ‘painting’ the limb can be time consuming and difficult areas such as between toes and fingers may remain unsterile. We demonstrate the time efficiency and asepsis achieved using the ‘sterile bag’ pre...

Wheat seedling blight caused by Fusarium culmorum, is one of the most common among wheat diseases. Last decades, use resistant cultivars and biological control antagonistic micro-organisms have received much attention. Resistance levels three (Saber Bag, Smito Sham 5) to this disease was assessed under greenhouse conditions. None high but Saber Bag showed highest germination rate 63.3%. This 11...

Artichoke (Cynara scolymus L.), a medicinal plant with high economic value, contains levels of phenolic compounds; especially cynarine, which plays an important role in preventing cancer, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, diabetes and neurodegeneration, etc. Currently, micropropagation has achieved some success; however, the rooting efficiency plantlet quality are still limited. In this stu...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of complete destruction of lens epithelial cells (LECs) in the capsular bag on intraocular lens (IOL) stability. SETTING School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. DESIGN Comparative evaluation. METHODS An in vitro organ culture model using the bag-zonule-ciliary body complex isolated from fellow human donor eyes was p...

every year large amounts of grapes are stores in normal and cold rooms to offer off-season of grapes to the market which based on several reasons their quality and weight greatly decreases. therefore, in order to decrease the post harvest losses of grapes and selection of suitable cultivars for long time storage, this study was conducted in two experiments, one in a factorial experiment based o...