PURPOSE To investigate the impact of interocular similarities of a surround stimulus on foveal resolution acuity in the normally developing visual system. METHODS Liquid crystal shutter goggles synchronized with the monitor frame rate were used to present a Landolt C and surround bars to one or both eyes, in monocular, dichoptic, half-binocular, and binocular viewing conditions. Resolution ac...

We examined accommodative vergence eye movements under conditions in which feedback about retinal-image slip was and was not present (i.e. closed-loop and open-loop conditions). We found that (a) in both conditions the two eyes started to move at the same time; (b) in the open-loop condition, vergence continued in both eyes; and (c) in the closed-loop condition, vergence continued in the occlud...

Hormone-related cancers account for almost 30% of all cancer cases in the United States. Data from animal experiments and from epidemiological and endocrinological studies in humans support the hypothesis that the individual hormones which control normal growth of target organs can also create the proper conditions for neoplastic transformation. The concept that hormones can cause, i.e., increa...

Short-term maintenance of mouse and rat ovary in organotypic culture system is no longer a problem (Martinovitch, 1938; Gaillard, 1953; Trowell, 1959). Gaillard (1953) cultivated ovaries from 7to 8-day-old and 21-day-old mice for a week on the plasma clot. Trowell (1959) maintained ovaries of 8-day-old mice on a synthetic medium in an O2-CO2 atmosphere for 9 days. He observed no histological di...

Floral development was investigated in Ruta graveolens and Psilopeganum sinense, representing two genera in the tribe Ruteae. Special attention was paid to the sequence of initiation of organ whorls in the androecium and gynoecium. The antepetalous stamens arise at the same level as the antesepalous stamens in both species. The carpels are antepetalous in both taxa, indicating the androecium in...

Normal binocular vision can provide a view of an object partially occluded so that no part of it is seen by both eyes but all of it is seen by one or other eye. We used two-dimensional filtered noise textures to explore the conditions under which the visual system can piece together the monocular fragments of such occluded surfaces. When the fragments seen by left and right eyes are drawn from ...

Two adaptation experiments were conducted to examine a hypothesis for a purely binocular color system that responds only to simultaneous inputs from the two eyes and that inhibits the activities of a pair of monocular color systems with each receiving input from their respective eye. In the first experiment, after a red or green stimulus was presented to both eyes to adapt the hypothesized bino...

Temperature increases, resulting from exposure to 1 MHz ultrasound, were measured in in situ and in exteriorized mouse ovaries. It is concluded that temperature increases from exposure to 10 W/cm2 and less are probably not significant for producing ovarian tissue damage, but that 25 W/cm2 exposures, and greater, are of such magnitude that damaging thermal levels ensue. The significance of blood...

PURPOSE To investigate the effect of interocular stimulus similarity on foveal resolution acuity. METHODS Liquid crystal shutter goggles synchronized with the monitor refresh rate were used to present a Landolt C and surround bars to one or both eyes, in four viewing conditions (monocular, dichoptic, half-binocular, and binocular). Resolution acuity was measured in each condition in 22 normal...

Effect of short term (7 days) exposure to safe concentration of HgCl2 (0.5 ppm) and changes 7 days after withdrawl of the treatment on his ophysiologyof ovary and liver in yearlings of Cyprinus carpio were assessed during active phase of reproductive cycle. Noticeable degenerative histophysiological changes were observed in both ovary and liver after exposure which were more prominent in the gr...