[Relationship between compliance and background factors of glaucoma patients].

Purpose: To obtain useful information for the improvement of patient compliance in the medical treatment of glaucoma.

Subjects And Methods: An unsigned attitude survey on glaucoma and eye drops was conducted with 431 glaucoma patients. Correlation between compliance and individual(objective and subjective) factors was investigated.

Human corneal epithelial cells respond to ocular-pathogenic, but not to nonpathogenic-flagellin.

In this study, we investigated the expression of TLR5 in human corneal epithelial cells (CEC), and the functional outcome of TLR5 triggering by flagellins of pathogenic- and nonpathogenic bacteria. Flagellins derived from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhimurium, Serratia marcescense or Bacillus subtilis were used. The TLR5 protein and TLR5 specific mRNA expression was evident on human CEC.