Non-destructive imaging of buried electronic interfaces using a decelerated scanning electron beam.

Recent progress in nanotechnology enables the production of atomically abrupt interfaces in multilayered junctions, allowing for an increase in the number of transistors in a processor. However, uniform electron transport has not yet been achieved across the entire interfacial area in junctions due to the existence of local defects, causing local heating and reduction in transport efficiency. To date, junction uniformity has been predominantly assessed by cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy, which requires slicing and milling processes that can potentially introduce additional damage and deformation.

Correlation Between Recurrent Subconjunctival Hemorrhages and Conjunctivochalasis by Clinical Profile and Successful Surgical Outcome.

Objective: To characterize the clinical profile of patients with recurrent subconjunctival hemorrhages (SCHs) and evaluate the effect of conjunctivochalasis (CCh) surgery on disease recurrences.

Methods: Three hundred and sixty-two patients with SCHs (mean age, 56.4±16.

Involvement of Eyelid Pressure in Lid-Wiper Epitheliopathy.

Objectives: To determine whether eyelid pressure is involved in the development of lid-wiper epitheliopathy (LWE).

Methods: Study 1: The eyelid pressure was measured with a blepharo-tensiometer, and the degree of LWE was assessed in 79 eyes of 43 non-contact lens (CL) wearers. Study 2: The movements of the eyelids and displacement of the eyes during spontaneous blinking were photographed with a high-speed camera.

Fungal keratitis caused by Beauveria bassiana: drug and temperature sensitivity profiles: a case report.

Background: Beauveria bassiana is an entomopathogenic fungus and is a rare cause of keratitis. We present a case of fungal keratitis caused by B. bassiana that was diagnosed by in vivo confocal microscopy and in vitro corneal cultures.

New method for viewing Krehbiel flow by polymethylmethacrylate particles suspended in fluorescein solution.

Purpose: To investigate the changes in the tear flow velocities caused by ageing.

Methods: Ninety-nine subjects (41 men, mean age 48.3 ± 20.

Indoxyl sulfate down-regulates SLCO4C1 transporter through up-regulation of GATA3.

The accumulated uremic toxins inhibit the expression of various renal transporters and this inhibition may further reduce renal function and subsequently cause the accumulation of uremic toxins. However, the precise mechanism of the nephrotoxicity of uremic toxins on renal transport has been poorly understood. Here we report that indoxyl sulfate, one of the potent uremic toxins, directly suppresses the renal-specific organic anion transporter SLCO4C1 expression through a transcription factor GATA3.

A metabolomic approach to clarifying the effect of AST-120 on 5/6 nephrectomized rats by capillary electrophoresis with mass spectrometry (CE-MS).

The oral adsorbent AST-120 is composed of spherical carbon particles and has an adsorption ability for certain small-molecular-weight compounds that accumulate in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). So far, very few compounds are known to be adsorbed by AST-120 in vivo. To examine the effect of AST-120 in vivo, we comprehensively evaluated the plasma concentrations of 146 compounds (61 anions and 85 cations) in CKD model rats, with or without four weeks of treatment with AST-120.

Clinical characteristics of keratitis due to Colletotrichum gloeosporioides.

Purpose: To determine the characteristics of the keratitis due to Colletotrichum gloeosporioides.

Methods: The medical records of 3 cases of fungal keratitis caused by C. gloeosporioides were reviewed to determine the clinical characteristics.

Effect of anterior chamber depth on shear stress exerted on corneal endothelial cells by altered aqueous flow after laser iridotomy.

Purpose. The study hypothesis was that shear stress caused by abnormal aqueous flow is one of the causes of corneal endothelial cell loss after laser iridotomy (LI). The shear stress exerted on the corneal endothelial cells (CECs) in anterior chambers (ACs) of different depths was calculated by a computational fluid dynamics program.

[Lid-wiper epitheliopathy in patients with dry eye symptoms].

Purpose: Lid-wiper epitheliopathy (LWE) is characterized by one part of the marginal conjunctiva of the upper eyelid being affected and is correlated with dry eye symptoms. This is a study of the clinical features of LWE.

Methods: Three hundred and sixty-four eyes of 182 patients with dry eye symptoms were studied.

Demonstration of aqueous streaming through a laser iridotomy window against the corneal endothelium.

Objective: To determine the pathogenesis of the bullous keratopathy that is frequently observed in patients after argon laser iridotomy (ALI) by comparing the changes in aqueous flow after ALI with those that follow peripheral iridectomy in rabbit eyes.

Methods: Silicone particles were injected into the anterior chamber of rabbit eyes as tracers to monitor aqueous flow. Particle tracking velocimetry with image analysis was used to determine the direction and speed of aqueous flow in 5 pigmented rabbits that underwent ALI and 5 that underwent peripheral iridectomy.

Effects of antioxidant treatment in oligozoospermic and asthenozoospermic men.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of sairei-to, an herbal medicine, as an antioxidant in oligozoospermia and asthenozoospermia (nonnormozoospermia).

Study Design: Forty-seven nonnormozoospermic and 16 normozoospermic men were the subjects of this prospective clinical study. After sairei-to (9.

Elevated serum CA125 and CA19-9 due to the spontaneous rupture of ovarian endometrioma.

A 23-year-old woman was suffered from ruptured ovarian endometrioma with an elevated CA125 and CA19-9 concentration; 9537 and 15,653IU/ml, respectively. Rapid decrease in serum CA125 and CA19-9 was recognized before surgery. Such high levels of both antigens have not been reported in a patient with endometriosis.