This prospective randomized study compared test results of size modulation standard automated perimetry (SM-SAP) performed with the Octopus 600 and conventional SAP (C-SAP) performed with the Humphrey Field Analyzer (HFA) in glaucoma patients. Eighty-eight eyes of 88 glaucoma patients underwent SM-SAP and C-SAP tests with the Octopus 600 24-2 Dynamic and HFA 24-2 SITA-Standard, respectively. Fo...

In physiological conditions, heart period (HP) affects systolic arterial pressure (SAP) through diastolic runoff and Starling's law, but, the reverse relation also holds as a result of the continuous action of baroreflex control. The prevailing mechanism sets the dominant temporal direction in the HP-SAP interactions (i.e., causality). We exploited cross-conditional entropy to assess HP-SAP cau...

BACKGROUND Floral nectar contains sugars and amino acids to attract pollinators. In addition, nectar also contains different secondary compounds, but little is understood about their origin or function. Does nectar composition reflect phloem composition, or is nectar synthesized and/or modified in nectaries? Studies where both, the nectar as well as the phloem sap taken from the same plant spec...

BACKGROUND Our previous study revealed that administration of syngeneic female BALB/c mice with excessive self activated lymphocyte-derived DNA (ALD-DNA) could induce systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease, indicating that overload of self-DNA might exceed normal clearance ability and comprise the major source of autoantigens in lupus mice. Serum amyloid P component (SAP), an acute-phase se...

PURPOSE To determine whether Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT; Heidelberg Engineering, Dossenheim, Germany) classification techniques and investigational support vector machine (SVM) analyses can detect optic disc abnormalities in glaucoma-suspect eyes before the development of visual field abnormalities. METHODS Glaucoma-suspect eyes (n = 226) were classified as converts or nonconverts based...

The distribution of monodisperse high molecular weight RNA (38, 30, 28, 23, and 18S RNA) was studied in the salivary gland cells of Chironomus tentans. RNA labeled in vitro and in vivo with tritiated cytidine and uridine was isolated from microdissected nucleoli, chromosomes, nuclear sap, and cytoplasm and analyzed by electrophoresis on agarose-acrylamide composite gels. As shown earlier, the n...

PURPOSE We compared the results of flicker-defined form (FDF) perimetry with standard automated perimetry (SAP) and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness measurements using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT). METHODS A total of 64 healthy subjects, 45 ocular hypertensive patients, and 97 "early" open-angle glaucoma (OAG) patients participated in this study. Definition of ...

to study the effect of aquazorb super absorbent polymer (sap) on reducing drought stress of acacia victoriae seedling, a split plot experiment based on the completely randomized design was conducted. in this research, stressed treatment as the main plots and amount of superabsorbent were considered as sub plot. treatments were applied consisted of four levels of drought stress (15, 30, 60 and 1...