Names and affiliations of applicants (* indicates experimentalists): J. Hoszowska*, Physics Department, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland J.-Cl. Dousse*, Physics Department, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland Y. Kayser*, Physics Department, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland W. Cao*, Physics Department, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Swit...

The Shortened Dental Arch (SDA) concept introduced as early as 1981 by Kayser and was accepted by a great majority of dentists but not widely practiced. The SDA comprising anterior and premolar teeth in general fulfill the requirements of a functional dentition. Patients’ needs and demands vary much and should be individually assessed but the SDA concept deserves to be included in all treatment...

children with bilateral retinoblastoma. Submitted for Publication: April 15, 2004; final revision received February 9, 2005; accepted February 17, 2005. Correspondence: Dr Carol L. Shields, Oncology Service, Wills Eye Hospital, 840 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19107 (carol.shields @shieldsoncology.com). Financial Disclosure: None. Funding/Support: This study was supported in part by the Eye Tumo...

Wilson disease (WD) was a once progressive and uniformly fatal inherited disorder of copper metabolism. Medical therapy to arrest progression or prevent complications of WD was developed in the 1950s with the introduction of parenterally administered BAL [1], and over the next two decades by oral therapy with d-penicillamine, trientine, and zinc [2]. Effective therapy for WD requires life-long ...

Analogous to the neurotoxicity markers of the Kayser-Fleischer ring in the cornea in Wilson’s disease and the Burton line in the gums in chronic lead poisoning, the finding in several studies of a significant relationship between dental fluorosis and cognitive impairment indicates that dental fluorosis can be regarded as a marker for fluoride-induced cognitive impairment. As noted by Xiang et a...

The implications of the many proper time amplitudes for the process Φ → K o + ¯ K o was discussed in a recent letter of B. Kayser and L. Stodolsky who predicted a small correction (∼ 5%) to the usually predicted phase oscillation frequency for forthcoming Φ factory experiments. Based on previous work (also using the many proper times formalism), we predicted a much larger correction factor ≈ 2....

In contrast to the wealth of saliency models in the vision literature, there is a relative paucity of models exploring auditory saliency. In this work, we integrate the approaches of (Kayser, Petkov, Lippert, & Logothetis, 2005) and (Zhang, Tong, Marks, Shan, & Cottrell, 2008) and propose a model of auditory saliency. The model combines the statistics of natural soundscapes and the recent past ...

We describe a 17-year-old girl with haemolytic anaemia as presentation of Wilson disease. The diagnosis was based on the findings of < 20 mg/dl ceruloplasmin serum level, Kayser-Fleischer ring and Coombs-negative haemolytic anaemia. Genetic testing revealed the presence of the H1069Q heterozygous mutation. The patient was treated with Zinc acetate monotherapy, with good response, maintened afte...

PURPOSE The purpose of the study is to present anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) as an alternative method of evaluating Kayser-Fleischer (KF) ring in Wilson disease (WD) not only by ophthalmologists but also by other clinicians dealing with WD. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a retrospective case series of six WD patients with KF ring. Evaluation of KF ring was done by nak...