Pupil assessment with a new handheld pupillometer in healthy subjects.

Objective: To assess the pupil response with a new handheld pupillometer in healthy subjects.

Methods: Sixty-four eyes of 32 healthy subjects (mean age 21.2 years) were tested.

An Approach to Improve Intestinal Absorption of Poorly Absorbed Water-Insoluble Components via Niemann-Pick C1-Like 1.

Dietary and biliary cholesterol absorption contributes to the maintenance of tight control of cholesterol homeostasis. Cholesterol is present as mixed micelles formed by bile salts and phospholipids in the intestinal lumen. Recently, Niemann-Pick C1-Like 1 (NPC1L1) transporter was identified as being critical for cholesterol absorption.