The following abstracts were presented as posters at the 2013 NEI Psychopharmacology Congress. Congratulations to the Scientific Poster Competition winners of the 2013 NEI Psychopharmacology Congress 1st Place: James Arthur Halgrimson, DO. 2nd Place: Michelle Magid, MD; Jason Reichenberg, MD; and Poppy E. Poth, CCRC. 3rd Place: Kathryn D. Moseley, MS, RD; Colleen G. Azen, MS; Martha Jean Ottina...

Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers have been used for many types of genetic analyses, including genome mapping, genotype fingerprinting, phylogeny reconstruction, and measuring genetic similarities. They suffer from one potential limitation, however, because the PCR that is used to produce informative amplification products often produces artifactual products as well. Optimization ...

PURPOSE To assess the vision-related quality of life (QOL) in a cohort of patients with ocular graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). DESIGN Prospective study. PARTICIPANTS Eighty-four patients diagnosed with chronic ocular GVHD. METHODS We assessed the vision-related QOL with the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ-25). The symptoms of ocular GVHD were assess...

Monsoons have historically been understood to be caused by the low thermal inertia of land, allowing more energy from summer insolation transferred overlying atmosphere than over adjacent ocean. Here, we show that during boreal summer, global maximum net input (NEI) unexpectedly lies Indian Ocean, not land. Observed radiative fluxes suggest cloud-radiative effects (CRE) almost double NEI ocean,...

One hundred pigs from the NE Index Line (NEI) and 100 Hampshire-Duroc cross pigs (HD) were inoculated intranasally with porcine respiratory and reproductive syndrome virus (PRRSV 97-7895 strain) at 26 d of age to determine whether genetic variation in response to PRRSV exists. An uninfected littermate to each infected pig served as a control. Pigs were from 163 dams and 83 sires. Body weight an...

The Escherichia coli DNA repair enzyme endonuclease VIII (EndoVIII or Nei) excises oxidized pyrimidines from damaged DNA substrates. It overlaps in substrate specificity with endonuclease III and may serve as a back-up for this enzyme in E. coli. The three-dimensional structure of Nei covalently complexed with DNA has been recently determined, revealing the critical amino-acid residues required...

In a recent paper (Russo, Takezaki, and Nei 1996) we examined the efficiencies of different tree-building methods (neighbor joining [NJ], minimum evolution, maximum parsimony [MP], and maximum likelihood) in recovering a true vertebrate phylogeny using mitochondrial genes. In practice, however, we usually do not know the true tree, so the reliability of a reconstructed tree is tested by various...

[Purpose] This research investigated the relationship between balance measured by a TETRAX and activities of daily living (ADL) assessed by NEI-VFQ 25. The results should provide basic data for rehabilitation therapy for low-vision patients. [Methods] We used the NEI-VFQ-25 vision-related Activities of Daily Living evaluation, MMSE-K, and TETRAX to evaluate 30 low-vision outpatients at K hospit...

METHOD one hundred (n=100) elderly outpatients with diabetic retinopathy taking antihypertensives and/or oral antidiabetics/insulin were interviewed. Adherence was evaluated by the adherence proportion and its association with the care taken in administrating medications and by the Morisky Scale. The National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire (NEI VFQ-25) was used to evaluate HRQoL...