Background: The brain and retina share many neuronal and vasculature characteristics. We investigated the retinal microvasculature in patients with a monogenic vasculopathy using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). OCT-A is a novel precise non-invasive imaging method that may provide biomarkers suitable for diagnosis and follow-up of small vessel diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEdible oils have economical and nutritional benefits. These oils offer nutrients that are essential to human health because they are the primary source of mono- and poly-unsaturated fats. Moreover, edible oils are used in home cooking and industrial food manufacturing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To generate novel, objective variables that resemble embryo quality and relate them to ongoing implantation, using multilevel imaging of single-transferred embryos.
Methods: Retrospective analysis of multilevel images of 659 day 3 single-transferred embryos. Each embryo was photographed on seven different levels, in order to measure the largest diameter of every blastomere within an embryo.