oxyntomodulin (oxm), a proglucagon-derived peptide, is a well known anorexigenic peptide found inthe gut and brain of mammals. the present study was carried out to investigate the central effect of oxm onfood intake in non-fasted and fasted ross broiler chicks. at four weeks of age, a guide cannula wasstereotaxically implanted into the right lateral ventricle of each bird. two experiments were ...

injection of synthetic fillers for soft tissue augmentation is increasing over the last decade. one of the most common materials used is hyaluronic acid (ha) that is safe and temporary filler for soft tissue augmentation. we present a case of 54-year-old female who experienced vascular occlusion and nasal alar necrosis following ha injection to the nasolabial folds. she suffered from pain, necr...

mice are ideal models for icsi experiments because of the ease of culturing eggs/embryos in vitro and the availability of ample genetic information. unfortunately, it has been extremely difficult. in this study we improved the mouse icsi method by using a new holding pipette that was made of two pipettes such that one pipette was pulled and heat merged into the other one. the outer pipette had ...

the effect of a combined system of the bed suction and jet injection as a pier-scour countermeasure on the turbulent flow field is studied in a laboratory flume using an acoustic doppler velocimeter (adv). the three components of the velocities in the vertical symmetry plane in the equilibrium scour hole in front and rear of the pier under 3-jet injections and bed suction rate qs/q0 = 2%located...

Comment. Scleral inflammatory disease is a deep and destructive inflammation presumed to be incited by autoimmune system dysregulation and is often classified on the basis of the site of pathologic findings and severity of inflammation. Scleritis is characterized by edema and inflammatory cell infiltration of the sclera and is commonly associated with identifiable systemic disease and often wit...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to describe the clinical features, treatment options, and visual outcome of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease patients over a 9-year period. METHOD A retrospective chart analysis of 32 patients with VKH, from January 2007 to December 2015, at a tertiary care government medical college eye hospital in South India. RESULTS A total of 32 patients were diagnos...

Objectives The operating room is a place of surgical intervention with its accompanying bodily and cognitive strain on the performers. Stress in the operating room may lead to the onset of central serous chorioretinopathy as reported hereby in a retina surgeon and is labeled as operating room central serous chorioretinopathy. Methods The same operator performed the optical coherence tomograph...

We report the rescue results of intravitreal aflibercept in patients with treatment-resistant neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). We retrospectively analyzed eyes with neovascular AMD resistant to posterior subtenon triamcinolone, intravitreal ranibizumab, and/or bevacizumab treatment in a tertiary medical center in middle Taiwan between December 2013 and October 2014. We then s...

results all patients experienced improvement in the wrinkles of the side treated by the combination therapy compared to the other side. in addition, less complication was observed in the side that underwent combination therapy. conclusions our study showed that autologous fat in combination with platelet gel might have better cosmetic results as well as lesser complications in the healing of na...

purpose : to determine the maximum non-toxic dose of recombinant human erythropoietin (epo) in rabbit eyes methods : eight rabbits (sixteen eyes) were scheduled for evaluating side effects of four intravitreal doses of 1000, 2000, 4000 and 5000 iu of epo, two rabbits for each dose. for each dose (two rabbits), the drug was injected for the right eyes. balanced salt solution (bss) was injected i...