Gnanalingham J, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220555 Description An 84 -year-old woman was admitted following a slight mechanical fall while she was in her garden. She had banged the back of her head followed by a brief period of nausea and vomiting which was self-limiting. One year before, the patient underwent surgical repair for retinal detachment of left eye with involvemen...

We have carried out the largest search for stable particles with fractional electric charge, based on an oil drop method that incorporates a horizontal electric field and upward air flow. No evidence for such particles was found, giving a 95% C.L. upper limit of 1.15 × 10 particles per nucleon on the abundance of fractional charge particles in silicone oil for 0.18e ≤ |Qresidual| ≤ 0.82e.

One of three preparations-silicone oil, hydrocortisone acetate, and hydrocortisone acetate plus saline-was injected into 22 osteoarthritic and 49 rheumatoid knees. Silicone injected into stiff, dry, grating knees which were the site of chronic arthritis did not promote better movement than did hydrocortisone alone. Hydrocortisone plus saline, however, appeared to be more effective than silicone...

Copyright © 2012 Frederick Furness Publishing 4 Silicone oil is commonly used as a lubricant coating in prefilled syringes (PFS) and is becoming one of the most highly discussed topics in the PFS market, particularly for developers of highly sensitive biotech drugs. In specific biological drug cases, unexpected drug-container interactions have been reported that were attributed to or associated...

The overall goal of this study was to fabricate multifunctional core-shell microcapsules with biological cells encapsulated within the polymer shell. Biocompatible temperature responsive microcapsules comprised of silicone oil droplets (multicores) and yeast cells embedded in a polymer matrix (shell) were prepared using a novel microarray approach. The cross-linked polymer shell and silicone mu...