PURPOSE To evaluate the association of lysyl oxidase like 1 (LOXL1) gene variants in Japanese patients with open-angle glaucoma. METHODS We evaluated the association of three LOXL1 variants (rs1048661, rs3825942, and rs2165241) in 142 Japanese patients with exfoliation syndrome (EX; n=59) and exfoliation glaucoma (EG; n=83) as well as in 251 control patients aged 70 years or older with primar...

Exfoliation of layered inorganic nanomaterials into single-layered sheets has been widely interested in materials chemistry and composite fabrication. Here, we report the exfoliation of layered zirconium phosphate nanoplatelets by using small molecule intercalating agents in ionic liquids, which opens a new platform for fabricating single-layered inorganic materials from synthetic layered compo...

certain strains of staphylococcus aureus produce a toxin which cause epidermal exfoliation within 18 hours after direct subcutaneous or intraperitoneal injection into newborn mice. the extracellular product responsible for exfoliation is termed exfoliative toxin (et). in the present studies a modified assay system has been developed for detection of exfoliativeactivity in toxin negative strains...

The study cohort consists of 459 subjects over 60 years of age. Intraocular pressure and degrees of exfoliation, lens changes, and pigment were recorded and their interrelationships investigated. A raised intraocular pressure was found to be associated with exfoliation, as also was increased pigmentation and the development of lens changes. An original observation is that the exfoliated males h...

In the Eye Outpatient Department of H.P. Medical College Hospital, Simla, nine cases of capsular exfoliation affecting seventeen eyes were seen in the course of 6 months. Their main features are given in Table I (overleaf, pp. I22 and 123). All the patients were males between the ages of 6o and 76 years. The capsular exfoliation was associated with phakodonesis, iridodonesis, glaucoma, primary ...

INTRODUCTION Herpes zoster Infection (HZI) is a viral disease with painful skin rashes and blisters in a limited area on one side of the body, often in a strip. Osteonecrosis with spontaneous exfoliation of teeth in association with HZI of the mandibular nerve is a rare phenomenon. In this report, such an unusual complication of HZI is presented. CASE REPORT The clinical course of a 53-year-o...