Intraluminal Stent Optimization for the Baerveldt Glaucoma Implant: An Experimental Study.

Precis: Our laboratory study determined the approximate suture diameter for use in intraluminal stenting of the Baerveldt glaucoma implant (BGI) to prevent postoperative hypotony. Commercial 3-0 monofilament nylon sutures which are commonly used may vary significantly outside of this diameter.

Purpose: Postoperative hypotony is a complication of surgical treatment of glaucoma using the BGI.

Bilateral Chondroid Metaplasia of Conjunctiva Associated With Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance.

Purpose: To describe a case of a patient with bilateral proliferation of chondrocytes of the lower palpebral conjunctiva.

Methods: Observational case report and review of relevant literature.

Results: Conjunctival biopsy from an 83-year-old man with bilateral acquired lower conjunctival nodules revealed a benign proliferation of chondrocytes.

Oxidation of the diphosphoinositol polyphosphate phosphohydrolase-like Nudix hydrolase Aps from Drosophila melanogaster induces thermolability--A possible regulatory switch?

Unlike mammalian cells, Drosophila melanogaster contains only a single member of the diphosphoinositol polyphosphate phosphohydrolase subfamily of the Nudix hydrolases, suggesting that functional specialisation has not occurred in this organism. In order to evaluate its function, Aps was cloned and characterized. It hydrolyses a range of (di)nucleoside polyphosphates, the most efficient being guanosine 5'-tetraphosphate (K(m)=11 microM, k(cat)=0.

Unimolecular binary half-adders with orthogonal chemical inputs.

Unimolecular half-adders based upon an arylvinyl-bipyridyl fluorophore platform were demonstrated where all the chemical input combinations were fully processed by half-adder molecules to generate the arithmetic results of the entire truth table.