Is Meat of Breeder Turkeys so Different from That of Standard Turkeys?

The technological, nutritional, and sensorial quality of breasts and thighs with drumsticks of turkey male and female breeders was characterized by comparison with breasts and thighs with drumsticks of growing male and female turkeys from the Grademaker line (hybrid turkeys, = 20 birds per sex and per physiological stage). The breeder turkeys were slaughtered at 397 and 410 days of age and 10.42 and 32.

Subjective through-focus quality of vision with various versions of modified monovision.

Background/aims: To evaluate and compare the effect of various modified monovision on binocular through-focus quality of vision.

Methods: Simulated images were computed using a numerical eye model, with a 4.7 mm pupil diameter, for various target vergences and with various combinations of spherical (SA4) and secondary spherical (SA6) aberrations.

Square-edge intraocular lenses and epithelial lens cell proliferation: implications on posterior capsule opacification in an in vitro model.

Background: To evaluate lens epithelial cell (LEC) proliferation with two different designs (one-piece or three-piece) of hydrophobic acrylic IOLs with 360° square optic edge using an in vitro culture model of posterior capsule opacification (PCO).

Methods: This experimental study was conducted at the Department of NEUROFARBA, Section of Pharmacology, University of Florence, Italy. Human LECs were seeded and cultured in transwell cell culture inserts coated with a type-IV collagen membrane on which an IOL (one-piece Tecnis-1 or three-piece AR40E, Abbott Medical Optics Inc.

Pharmacokinetic evaluation of diquafosol tetrasodium for the treatment of Sjögren's syndrome.

Introduction: Dry eye is a multifactorial disease of the ocular surface causing ocular discomfort and visual impairment for the patient. A variety of topical and systemic drugs are available to treat dry eye. Conventional treatments are limited to tear supplementation or improvement of ocular surface inflammation by the use of corticosteroids or cyclosporine A.

Astigmatism correction with toric intraocular lenses: wavefront aberrometry and quality of life.

Background/aim: To evaluate wavefront aberrations and subjective quality of life after toric intraocular lens (TIOL) implantation.

Methods: Three groups of subjects who underwent unilateral cataract surgery with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation were compared: (1) toric group (n=40): corneal astigmatism >1.50 D, implanted with Acrysof toric SN60TT IOL (Alcon Inc, Fort Worth,  Texas, USA); (2) astigmatic SN60AT group (n=40): corneal astigmatism >1.