Purpose To estimate the frequency of exfoliation syndrome (XFS) and its association with ocular diseases in Northern Nigeria. Materials and methods Consecutive patients who presented to the outpatient department of ECWA Eye Hospital Kano from February 2015 to May 2015 were included in the study. Each patient had a complete ophthalmic examination. The anterior segment examination included tono...

We investigate the surface blistering/exfoliation in H-implanted GaSb (100) substrates. Samples were implanted by 50 keV hydrogen ions with a fluence of 5 × 1016 and 1 1017 ions/cm2 at room temperature. Post-implantation annealing studies carried out up to 300 °C observe blistering. Interestingly, exfoliation over large area was observed for both fluences after post-implantation annealing. High...

Chloroquine is the drug very frequently used for the treatment of malaria. It is also used in amebiasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and various dermatological conditions. Chloroquine can cause muscle problems, loss of appetite, and diarrhea as a side effect. Cutaneous toxicity includes pruritus, hair loss, photosensitivity, and color changes. Exfoliation of skin over palms and soles is caused by che...

The field responsible for the cosmological curvature perturbations generated during a stage of primordial inflation might be the “curvaton”, a field different from the inflaton field. To keep the effective mass of the curvaton small enough compared to the Hubble rate during inflation one may not invoke supersymmetry since the latter is broken by the vacuum energy density. In this paper we propo...

As-produced carbon nanotubes come in bundles that must be exfoliated for practical applications in nanocomposites. Sonication not only causes the exfoliation of nanotube bundles but also unwanted scission. An understanding of how precisely sonication induces the scission and exfoliation of nanotubes will help maximising the degree of exfoliation while minimising scission. We present a theoretic...

PURPOSE To evaluate the association profiles of the lysyl oxidase-like 1 (LOXL1) gene polymorphisms with exfoliation syndrome in a Chinese population. METHODS Fifty unrelated patients with exfoliation syndrome and 125 control subjects were included. Genotypes of the three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of LOXL1 (rs1048661, rs3825942, and rs2165241) were analyzed by direct sequencing, ...

A 34-year-old woman presented with pain during menstruation and was diagnosed with endometriosis of the lower rectum. Despite treatment with an LH-RH agonist, she was unable to become pregnant and surgical removal of her endometriosis was recommended. Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging revealed endometriosis localized between the neck of the uterus and rectum with indentation and scuffing....

• Exfoliation of layered stannosilicate greatly increases its catalytic performance. In sucrose conversion, the exfoliated catalyst shows a methyl lactate yield approximately 50 %. Exfoliated is active after several reaction cycles. Biomass has been shown as an alternative to fossil fuels for obtaining chemicals. this work, transformation sugars into (ML) at 160 °C was carried out using UZAR-S3...