(1) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
(2) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(3) When the eye was dissected into anterior uveal, scleral, and retinal complexes, prostaglandin D2 was formed in the highest degree in all the complexes, whereas prostaglandin E2 and F2 alpha formation was specific to given ocular regions.
(4) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
(5) The number of axons displaying peptide-like immunoreactivity within the optic nerve, retinal or cerebral to the crush, and within the optic chiasm gradually decreased after 2-3 months.
(6) Once the normal variations are mastered, appreciation of retinal, choroidal, optic nerve, and vitreal abnormalities is possible.
(7) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
(8) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
(9) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
(10) A patient with a history of hypertension had a combined central retinal artery and vein occlusion in one eye.
(11) Certain underlying factors in several types of retinal degeneration are first discussed, followed by characteristics of diabetic maculopathy and of other types of macular degeneration including that due to aging.
(12) A total of 27 reoperations including eight repeat PRs (5 of which were successful) was required to achieve permanent retinal reattachment.
(13) The observations support the idea that the function of pericytes in the choriocapillaris, the major source of nutrition for the retinal photoreceptors, resides in their contractility, and that pericytes do not remove necrotic endothelium during capillary atrophy.
(14) The death of retinal ganglion cells during development thus seems to serve 2 purposes: It provides for the quantitative matching of the ganglion cell population to the needs of its central projection fields, and, at the same time, it serves to selectively eliminate those cells whose axons project to inappropriate targets or to inappropriate regions within the correct target fields.
(15) Changes in protein phosphorylation induced by phagocytic challenge were identified in cultured rat retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) following exposure to isolated rat rod outer segments (ROS) or to polystyrene latex microspheres (PSL).
(16) The chromophore of octopus rhodopsin is 11-cis retinal, linked via a protonated Schiff base to the protein backbone.
(17) After intravenous or dorsal lymph sac injections of 3H-22:6, most of the retinal label was seen in rod photoreceptor cells.
(18) This suggests that many retinal ganglion cells continue to discharge in total darkness for long periods.
(19) The yield of such studies may be high for an understanding of such diseases as myopia, retinal detachment, and keratoconus.
(20) Twenty patients with central retinal vein occlusion were randomly divided into two groups in a prospective study to evaluate the effects of xenon are photocoagulation in central retinal vein occlusion.
Retinol
Definition:
(n.) A hydrocarbon oil obtained by the distillation of resin, -- used in printer's ink.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicate that CRALBP X 11-cis-retinol is sufficiently stereoselective in its binding properties to warrant consideration as a component of the mechanism for the generation of 11-cis-retinaldehyde in the dark.
(2) The methods discussed here are versatile procedures that have been effective for the quantification of retinoic acid and retinol in plasma or serum, cells in culture, and animal tissues.
(3) Pediatric) (280 micrograms retinol; 160 IU vitamin D; 2.8 mg tocopherol; 0.68 mg riboflavin) in a lipid emulsion, Intralipid.
(4) The first phase was induced by the action of retinol alone and not inhibited by TXA2 receptor antagonist.
(5) Carotenoids are absorbed and then partially converted to retinol in the enterocytes.
(6) The transport constant for specific retinol accumulation from RBP was 3.0 microM, suggesting that any change in the normal circulating retinol-RBP level (approximately 2 microM) would directly affect the rate of retinol accumulation.
(7) The enzyme xanthine oxidase is involved not only in the conversion of xanthine to uric acid but also in that of retinol to its more toxic metabolite, retinoic acid.
(8) With a bi-directional (up-down) gradient-elution technique both packings are useful for the determination of serum levels of carotenoids and retinol in serum extracts.
(9) Taken together, our results have demonstrated direct trophic effects of RA on spinal cord neurons and have suggested another role for astrocytes in the maintenance of normal neural physiology by regulating RA concentrations through the oxidation of retinol.
(10) Dialysed or heat-inactivated FBS or fatty-acid-free albumin was as effective as FBS in provoking ester hydrolysis and retinol release.
(11) Host response to nutritional therapy was monitored with plasma prealbumin and retinol-binding protein levels which did not change significantly in either group.
(12) These findings suggest that neither serum levels of selenium nor those of retinol have an appreciable effect on the risk of cancer.
(13) We measured parasitemia, mortality, serum retinol, liver retinol, spleen weight, and degree of xerophthalmia in vitamin A-deficient rats (A-), pair-fed control rats (A+PF), and ad libitum-fed control rats (A+AL) infected with Plasmodium berghei, a rodent malarial parasite.
(14) Among the identical residues there is one tryptophan at position 19 which is conserved in beta-lactoglobulins and is also found in the human retinol-binding protein at the corresponding position.
(15) Hence, the premature infant faces extrauterine adaptation with less total reserves of retinol than does the term infant.
(16) High maternal vitamin A intake results in high retinol transport to the fetus.
(17) Thus, the results of this study indicate that retinal is an obligatory intermediate in the hepatic production of retinoic acid from retinol and that cytosolic and microsomal retinol dehydrogenases play a key role in this process.
(18) This indicated either a higher degree of retinol metabolism or a sequestration of RA in the limb bud compared to the rest of the embryo at this stage of development.
(19) RA, which is one of the most active metabolites of retinol, is also present in low concentration in the blood and the RA rate formation varies from tissues depending on specific need of the cell.
(20) In conclusion, 17 of 23 children with persistent diarrhea had abnormal CIC results, significantly low serum retinol levels, and significantly high RDR results, although they had not yet manifested xerophthalmia.