Coats' disease diagnosed in adulthood is rare; therefore, the treatment options and longer clinical course are not well established. We report on two cases of adult onset Coats' disease, which have been observed for more than 10 years after conventional treatment. In the first case, a 76-year-old man with 9 years of diabetic retinopathy noticed a visual field defect in his left eye. Yellowish s...

Sap flow from excised maple stems collected over the winter (1986/87) was correlated with stem water content. Stem water content was high in the fall (>0.80) and decreased rapidly during 2 weeks of continuous freezing temperatures in late winter (<0.60). Exudation of sap from stem segments subjected to freeze/thaw cycles was small (<10 mL/kg) in the fall, but substantial exudation (45-50 mL/kg)...

Plants naturally cycle amino acids across root cell plasma membranes, and any net efflux is termed exudation. The dominant ecological view is that microorganisms and roots passively compete for amino acids in the soil solution, yet the innate capacity of roots to recover amino acids present in ecologically relevant concentrations is unknown. We find that, in the absence of culturable microorgan...

Inflammatory challenges of tracheobronchial and nasal mucosa produce prompt extravasation or exudation of plasma from the well developed microcirculation just beneath the epithelial base. Plasma exudation is not an exaggeration of the normal capilliary exchange of fluid and solutes but a specific inflammatory response of post-capilliary venules. The exuded plasma may not produce oedema. By a ra...

CLINICAL CASE A 37-year-old man was referred because of a bilateral loss of visual acuity and metamorphopsia. On examination there was yellowish exudation bilaterally associated with serous retinal detachments, corresponding to hyperfluorescence spots in the early stage of fluorescein angiography. Photocoagulation of the leakage spots was performed in both eyes. Six months later he had recovere...

Recent findings indicate that plant-root exudates can stimulate plant-associated microorganisms to enhance the biodegradation of contaminants in constructed wetlands. To understand this process, we studied root-exudation changes two aquatic plants (Lemna minor and Salvinia natans) upon micropollutants exposure (10, 100 1000 ?g/L mixes containing naproxen, diclofenac, carbamazepine, benzotriazol...