Purpose: To evaluate the course of diabetic patients having performed cataract-surgery by an ex@enced surgeon using phacoemulshication-technique and the implantation of a hepariucoated posterior chamber lens. Cataract-surgery is often complicated with the development of macular edema and the aggravation of diabetic retinopathy. Even patients with no clinically detectable diabetic retinopathy ar...

Purpose: To evaluate the course of diabetic patients having performed cataract-surgery by an ex@enced surgeon using phacoemulshication-technique and the implantation of a hepariucoated posterior chamber lens. Cataract-surgery is often complicated with the development of macular edema and the aggravation of diabetic retinopathy. Even patients with no clinically detectable diabetic retinopathy ar...

Purpose: To evaluate the course of diabetic patients having performed cataract-surgery by an ex@enced surgeon using phacoemulshication-technique and the implantation of a hepariucoated posterior chamber lens. Cataract-surgery is often complicated with the development of macular edema and the aggravation of diabetic retinopathy. Even patients with no clinically detectable diabetic retinopathy ar...

In an effort to improve current technology for detection of Newcastle disease virus in convalescent birds, a procedure has been developed for efficient reactivation of virus that has been neutralized by antibody. The reactivation capabilities of fluorocarbon treatment, ultrasonic treatment, pH extremes, and proteolytic digestion were evaluated using the LaSota strain of virus. Reactivation was ...

The stabilities and hydrocarbon/fluorocarbon sorption properties of a zeolite-like metal-organic framework (MOF) Zn(hfipbb) with fluorinated channels has been studied. By the combination of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) measurements, we confirm that Zn(hfipbb) has exceptionally high hydrothermal and thermal stabilities. The adsorption behaviors of water an...

We have cultured the murine cell lines 3T3-L1 and SV-T2 using as a substrate the layer of denatured protein that forms at the phase boundary between culture medium and fluorocarbon fluids. The growth patterns observed on these interfaces differ from those seen on conventional solid substrates. Depending on the cell strain and the composition of the fluorocarbon fluid, cells will tend to clump i...

Purpose: To evaluate the course of diabetic patients having performed cataract-surgery by an ex@enced surgeon using phacoemulshication-technique and the implantation of a hepariucoated posterior chamber lens. Cataract-surgery is often complicated with the development of macular edema and the aggravation of diabetic retinopathy. Even patients with no clinically detectable diabetic retinopathy ar...

The dynamic fluorine polarization by the Overhauser effect has been studied at four different magnetic field values and at various temperatures in several fluorocarbon solutions. The importance of intermolecular contact couplings is very sensitively dependent on the chemical environment of the fluorine nuclei. The experimental data are interpreted in terms of the stochastic "pulse model" of mol...

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