Central vault after phakic intraocular lens implantation: correlation with anterior chamber depth, white-to-white distance, spherical equivalent, and patient age.

Purpose: To compare the central postoperative vault of a phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) to correct myopia, myopic astigmatism, and hyperopia and identify ocular and lens parameters that might predict the vault amount.

Setting: Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain.

Design: Cohort study.

Subventricular zone-derived neuroblasts use vasculature as a scaffold to migrate radially to the cortex in neonatal mice.

Neurons continue to be generated in the subventricular zone (SVZ) throughout postnatal development and adulthood in rodents. Whereas in adults, virtually all neuroblasts migrate tangentially to the olfactory bulb via the rostral migratory stream (RMS), in neonates, a substantial fraction migrate radially through the corpus callosum (CC) to the cortex. Mechanisms of radial cortical migration have remained unknown.

"Small axonless neurons": postnatally generated neocortical interneurons with delayed functional maturation.

GABAergic interneurons of the mouse cortex are generated embryonically in the ventral telencephalon. Recent evidence, however, indicated that a subset of cortical cells expressing interneuronal markers originate in the neonatal subventricular zone. This has raised interest in the functional development and incorporation of these postnatally generated cells into cortical circuits.

Viability of ICSI oocytes after caffeine treatment and sperm membrane removal with Triton X-100 in pigs.

Non-adequate decondensation of injected sperm nucleus is one the main problems of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in porcine. With the aim of improving pronuclear formation, the effects on activation and embryo development rates of 0.1% Triton X-100 (TX) sperm pre-treatment for membrane removal and/or 5 mM Caffeine (CAF) addition in oocyte manipulating and culture medium for 2 h after ICSI or artificial activation were studied.

Intrastromal corneal ring segment implantation in 219 keratoconic eyes at different stages.

Background: To evaluate the visual and refractive outcomes of intrastromal corneal ring segment (ICRS) in keratoconic eyes at different stages.

Methods: Two hundred and nineteen keratoconic eyes were divided into three groups as a function of stage of keratoconus (stages I, II and III). There were 115 eyes with stage I, 84 eyes with stage II and 20 eyes with stage III.

Visual quality after diffractive intraocular lens implantation in eyes with previous hyperopic laser in situ keratomileusis.

Purpose: To evaluate distance, intermediate, and near visual quality in eyes with diffractive intraocular lens (IOL) implantation after previous hyperopic laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK).

Setting: Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain.

Design: Cohort study.

Posterior chamber collagen copolymer phakic intraocular lenses to correct myopia: five-year follow-up.

Purpose: To evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of posterior chamber collagen copolymer phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) implantation to correct myopia.

Setting: Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain.

Design: Cohort study.

Intrastromal corneal ring segments and posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens implantation for keratoconus correction.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy, safety, and predictability of sequential implantation of Keraring intrastromal corneal ring segments (ICRS) and an Implantable Collamer Lens phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) with corneal relaxing incisions for refractive correction of keratoconus.

Setting: Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain.

Design: Cohort study.

Demonstration of ignition radiation temperatures in indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion hohlraums.

We demonstrate the hohlraum radiation temperature and symmetry required for ignition-scale inertial confinement fusion capsule implosions. Cryogenic gas-filled hohlraums with 2.2 mm-diameter capsules are heated with unprecedented laser energies of 1.

γ Hydroxybutyrate use: exploring the influence of outcome expectancies through memory modeling.

Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) has been linked to overdose, criminal surreptitious administration, the need for emergency medical care, and fatalities worldwide. To begin to identify and understand the motivational factors that lead to the use of GHB, the present investigation utilized methods that have been successful in identifying potential expectancy targets and have been incorporated into prevention and intervention strategies successful in reducing high-risk alcohol use. In the present investigation, GHB expectancies were elicited from 926 voluntary participants aged 18-60 at a university in the southeastern United States to develop the GHB Expectancy Questionnaire (GHBEQ).

Combined Goal Management Training and Mindfulness meditation improve executive functions and decision-making performance in abstinent polysubstance abusers.

The clinical relevance of neuropsychological deficits in addicted individuals has fostered interest in treatment strategies aimed to effectively target executive and decision-making dysfunction. One of the best-validated interventions for executive dysfunction is Goal Management Training (GMT) (Robertson et al., 2005), an interactive program aimed at improving participants' organization and ability to achieve goals.

Refractive lens exchange with Acri.LISA bifocal intraocular lens implantation.

Purpose: To assess efficacy, safety, and predictability after refractive lens exchange (RLE) in patients who had bilateral implantation of an Acri.LISA 366D diffractive bifocal intraocular lens (IOL).

Methods: Sixty-six eyes of 33 consecutive patients were examined after RLE who had bilateral implantation of an Acri.

Collagen copolymer toric posterior chamber phakic intraocular lenses to correct high myopic astigmatism.

Purpose: To assess the safety, efficacy, stability, and predictability after implantation of a toric intraocular copolymer (Collamer) lens (pIOL) to correct high myopic astigmatism.

Setting: Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain.

Methods: This study evaluated eyes that had implantation of a toric pIOL.

Contrast sensitivity comparison between AcrySof ReSTOR and Acri.LISA aspheric intraocular lenses.

Purpose: To evaluate distance contrast sensitivity under photopic, mesopic, and mesopic with glare conditions after implantation of the AcrySof ReSTOR (Alcon Laboratories Inc) and Acri.LISA (Carl Zeiss Meditec) intraocular lenses (IOLs).

Methods: Binocular contrast sensitivity function was measured with the Optec 6500 FACT contrast sensitivity chart at distance and at three lighting conditions (85 cd/m2 and 3 cd/m2 with and without glare) in 36 eyes of 18 patients implanted with the AcrySof ReSTOR aspheric SN6AD3 IOL and 40 eyes of 20 patients implanted with the Acri.

Collagen copolymer toric posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens in eyes with keratoconus.

Purpose: To assess the safety, efficacy, stability, and predictability of collagen copolymer toric phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) implantation to correct myopia and astigmatism in eyes with keratoconus.

Setting: Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain.

Methods: This prospective study comprised keratoconic eyes that had implantation of a toric Intraocular Collamer Lens.

Intermediate visual function with different multifocal intraocular lens models.

Purpose: To compare visual acuity at different distances after bilateral implantation of 1 of 4 multifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs).

Setting: Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain.

Methods: This study evaluated consecutive patients who had bilateral implantation of a spherical multifocal IOL with a +4.

Collagen copolymer toric posterior chamber phakic intraocular lens for myopic astigmatism: one-year follow-up.

Purpose: To assess the predictability, efficacy, safety, and stability of collagen copolymer toric phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) implantation to correct moderate to high myopic astigmatism.

Setting: Fernández-Vega Ophthalmological Institute, Oviedo, Spain.

Methods: This study comprised eyes that had implantation of a toric Intraocular Collamer Lens for moderate to high myopic astigmatism.

Three-year follow-up of subjective vault following myopic implantable collamer lens implantation.

Purpose: To evaluate changes of subjective vault during a period of 36 months after implantation of phakic posterior chamber implantable collamer lens (ICL) for myopia correction.

Methods: Nine hundred and sixty four myopic eyes of 531 patients, 353 females (66.5%) and 178 (33.

Spectacle independence and subjective satisfaction of ReSTOR multifocal intraocular lens after cataract or presbyopia surgery in two European countries.

Purpose: To determine the percentage of patients implanted bilaterally with ReSTOR((R)) requiring spectacles at 18 months, the patient satisfaction, and factors that predict spectacles independence.

Methods: The medical and surgical data were collected from patient records. The 'Freedom from Spectacles Value Scale' (FGVS) was used to rank their experiences via telephone interview.

Refractive lens exchange with distance-dominant diffractive bifocal intraocular lens implantation.

Purpose: To assess efficacy, safety and predictability after refractive lens exchange (RLE) in patients who had bilateral implantation of a distance-dominant diffractive bifocal intraocular lens (IOL).

Methods: Seventeen patients (34 eyes) were examined after RLE with bilateral implantation of a diffractive bifocal 447D IOL. Eyes were divided into myopic and hyperopic groups.

[Rhinocerebral mucormycosis: report on eight cases].

Mucormycosis is a serious condition, usually acute and often fatal, It presents in its most aggressive form in debilitated hosts, usually with diabetic ketoacidosis or immunosuppression. As otolaryngologists, we must diagnose it as early as possible, establish early treatment with amphotericin B and perform a surgical manoeuvre to obtain infection-free margins. It is rare and largely unknown, contributing to delayed diagnosis.

Outcomes and patient satisfaction after presbyopic bilateral lens exchange with the ResTOR IOL in emmetropic patients.

Purpose: To assess efficacy, safety, predictability, stability, and patient satisfaction after presbyopic lens exchange in emmetropic patients.

Methods: A prospective, nonrandomized, masked, observational case series (self-controlled) of 46 emmetropic eyes of 23 consecutive patients (age range: 50 to 60 years) after presbyopic lens exchange with bilateral AcrySof ReSTOR Natural (SN60D3) intraocular lens (IOL) (Alcon Laboratories Inc) implantation were evaluated. Mean spherical equivalent refraction (SE) was -0.

Simulation of the thermogravimetry analysis of three non-wood pulps.

In a study of three non-wood pulps (rice straw, EFB, and Hesperaloe), the standard pyrolysis model for biomass based on hemicellulose, cellulose, and lignin pseudo-components, was modified to include char volatilization. As a result, abnormally high values for lignin content have been avoided. On the other hand, the consideration of autocatalysis (Prout-Tompkins equation) for TGA data simulation under inert and oxidative atmospheres, allows obtaining a stable set of kinetic parameters that describe volatilization and char oxidation for different heating rates, including char ignition.

Chemical activation with a combination of ionomycin and dehydroleucodine for production of parthenogenetic, ICSI and cloned bovine embryos.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of dehydroleucodine (DhL), a new drug isolated from a medicinal herb used in Argentina, for activation of bovine oocyte. Several DhL concentrations and exposure times after ionomycin (Io) treatment were tested. The optimal DhL treatment, found for parthenogenetic development, was employed to produce bovine embryos by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).