AIMS The purpose of this pilot study was to test whether the rate of collagen synthesis is measurable in the aqueous humour samples in reoperated and previously unoperated eyes. METHODS The material consisted of 28 eyes of 27 patients, aged 5 to 82 years, in whom aqueous humour samples were obtained during eye surgery. Fifteen patients had no history of previous eye surgery (control group) wh...

Author’s address: Prof. Dr. A. Hagedoorn, Oogheelkundige Kliniek van het Academisch Ziekenhuis der Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1117, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Firstly, I should like to show you a preparation of the retina and eye of a patient with a horseshoe tear of the retina followed by a recent detachment of the retina. Unfortunately, the patient died shortly after a scleral resectio...

In the context of cancer, humour and joking can still be seen as socially unacceptable. Yet people with cancer can find relief in making light of their often life-threatening situations. How and why they do this has received little systematic attention to date. This paper begins to address this gap by exploring 530,055 words of online patient--patient interactions on a thread explicitly dedicat...

Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and lactate are some of the hypoxy biochemical parameters. Extracellular activity of this enzyme increases under the condition of oxidative stress, since the cell integrity can be disrupted during the lipid peroxidation process. Subsequently that leads to the increase level of the lactic acid and lactic acid salts. The objective of this investigation is establishing ...

Humour is one of the most amazing characteristics that defines us as human beings and social entities. Its study supposes a deep insight into several areas such as linguistics, psychology or philosophy. From the Natural Language Processing (NLP) perspective, recent researches have shown that humour can be automatically generated and recognized with some success. In this work we present a study ...

In 2006, Wear et al. reported a study of medical students’ perceptions and use of derogatory and cynical humour directed at patients. They found that students frequently cited residents’ and attending doctors’ attitudes and behaviours that indicated the sanctioning and use of these forms of humour. A follow-up investigation by the same researchers, published in this issue, sought to investigate...

GC-NICIMS has been employed in the analysis of biogenic amines and their metabolites in human urine and human, bovine and porcine aqueous and vitreous humour. Several new chemical derivatization procedures have been developed in order to analyse these compounds. Concentrations of octopamines and synephrines were determined in urine from treated and untreated hypertensive subjects and normotensi...