background: considering the common origin of skin and peripheral nervous system, a tube of dermal layer of skin hypothetically can be an ideal conduit for nerve reconstruction. an experimental study performed to evaluate the nerve regeneration of efficacy into a dermal tube. methods: sixty male wistar rats were used. a 10 mm gap was produced in right sciatic nerves. in group a the autogenous ne...

PURPOSE To evaluate the retinal nerve fiber layer measurements with time-domain (TD) and spectral-domain (SD) optical coherence tomography (OCT), and to test the diagnostic ability of both technologies in glaucomatous patients with asymmetric visual hemifield loss. METHODS 36 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma with visual field loss in one hemifield (affected) and absent loss in the ot...

purpose: to determine agreement between peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (rnfl) thickness measurements by two different spectral domain optical coherence tomography (sd-oct) machines. methods: both eyes of 89 subjects were evaluated using cirrus oct (carl zeiss meditec, inc. dublin, ca, usa) and topcon oct (3d oct 1000, topcon corporation, tokyo, japan). one eye was randomly selected in ...

Tadpoles of Xenopus laevis are shown to respond to magnetic fields using a gravity-related test paradigm. They exhibit a directional selectivity with respect to angular variations of the inclination of low-intensity magnetic fields. This response is abolished when the optic nerves of the tadpole are transected, indicating that the peripheral optical system is involved in the detection of magnet...