Leprosy is caused by Mycobacterium leprae infection and remains a major public health problem in many areas of the world. Challenges to its timely diagnosis result in delay in treatment, which is usually associated with severe disability. Although phenolic glycolipid (PGL)-I has been reported as auxiliary diagnostic tool, currently there is no serological assay routinely used in leprosy diagnos...

This study investigates the effect of lid motion on the optimal characteristics a thin rectangular fin attached on the hot wall of a square lid-driven cavity with active vertical walls. The optimal fin position is studied for Richardson numbers of 0.1-10. The effect of mounting a rectangular fin with a thermal conductivity of 1 and 1000 on minimization and maximization of heat transfer through ...

Plus minus lid syndrome is an ocular syndrome characterized by unilateral ptosis and contralateral lid retraction. Also when the ipsilateral lid is raised manually, the contralateral retracted lid does not revert. This patient presented with features of plus minus lid syndrome with ataxia due to a vascular mesencephalic lesion.

Chronic dopamine replacement therapy in Parkinson’s disease (PD) leads to deleterious motor sequelae known as L-DOPAinduced dyskinesia (LID). No known therapeutic can eliminate LID, but preliminary evidence suggests that dl-1-isopropylamino-3-(1-naphthyloxy)-2-propanol [( )propranolol], a nonselective -adrenergic receptor ( AR) antagonist, may reduce LID. The present study used the rat unilater...

This study provides a comprehensive description of upper eyelid movement in normal human subjects. Using the magnetic search coil technique to monitor lid position and modified skin electrodes to record orbicularis oculi electromyographic (EMG) activity, the authors found that the basic eyelid movements, blinks, and saccadic lid movements, can be uniquely and reliably characterized by their amp...

PARADOXICAL lid retraction of the ptotic lid on occlusion of the sound eye and several other synkinetic oculopalpebral phenomena are described in the literature in relation to ophthalmoplegia, congenital as well as acquired (Lewallen, 1958; Walsh, 1957). Fuchs's phenomenon of lid retraction on lateral movement, the pseudo-Graefe phenomenon with depression and lid retraction on elevation, are al...

Case Age at Cause of No. Onset Sex Ophthalmoplegia Manifestation (yrs) 1 47 F S u b a r a c h no i d !Fuchs's phenomenon of lid retraction on adduction haemorrhage Pseudo-Graefe phenomenon of lid retraction on looking down 2 i F Typhoid Paradoxical retraction on occlusion of sound eye 3 5 M Head injury Lid retraction on attempted adduction Pseudo-Graefe phenomenon of lid retraction on looking d...

Chronic dopamine replacement therapy in Parkinson's disease (PD) leads to deleterious motor sequelae known as L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia (LID). No known therapeutic can eliminate LID, but preliminary evidence suggests that dl-1-isopropylamino-3-(1-naphthyloxy)-2-propanol [(±)propranolol], a nonselective β-adrenergic receptor (βAR) antagonist, may reduce LID. The present study used the rat unilat...