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 | Baehr, Wolfgang | Cloning and sequence analysis of the major outer membrane protein genes of two Chlamydia psittaci strains | We cloned and sequenced the gene encoding the major outer membrane protein (MOMP) of two Chlamydia psittaci strains, guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis (GPIC) strain 1, and meningopneumonitis (Mn) strain Cal-10. Intraspecies alignment of the two C. psittaci MOMP genes revealed 80.6% similarity, and... | Base Sequence; Cloning, Molecular; Amino Acid Sequence | 1989 |
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 | Digre, Kathleen B. | Significance of CT and MR findings in sphenoid sinus disease. | Disorders of the paranasal sinuses, particularly the sphenoid sinus, can be associated with significant disorders of the optic and other cranial nerves. We examined 100 consecutive routine CT scans, 100 posterior fossa CT scans, and 100 MR scans to look for evidence of sinus disease, especially of t... | Sphenoid Sinus; Vision Disorders; Paranasal Sinus Diseases; Magnetic Resonance Imaging | 1989-05 |
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 | Frederick, Jeanne M.; Baehr, Wolfgang | Receptor for advanced glycation end products and age-related macular degeneration. | Advanced glycation end products (AGE) exacerbate disease progression through two general mechanisms: modifying molecules and forming nondegradable aggregates, thus impairing normal cellular/tissue functions, and altering cellular function directly through receptor-mediated activation. In the present... | Optic Atrophies, Hereditary; Apoptosis; Pigment Epithelium of Eye | 2004 |
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 | Angelucci, Alessandra; Lund, Jennifer S. | Circuits for local and global signal integration in primary visual cortex | Contrast-dependent changes in spatial summation and contextual modulation of primary visual cortex (V1) neuron responses to stimulation of their receptive field reveal long-distance integration of visual signals within V1, well beyond the classical receptive field (cRF) of single neurons. To identif... | Primary Visual Cortex; Extrastriate Cortex; Feed-back Connections; Lateral Connections; SUrround Modulation; Macaque | 2002-10-01 |
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 | Normann, Richard A.; Campbell, Patrick K.; Jones, Kelly E.; Huber, Robert J.; Horch, Kenneth W. | Silicon-based, three-dimensional neural interface: manufacturing processes for an intracortical electrode array | A method has been developed for the manufacture of a "three-dimensional" electrode array geometry for chronic intracortical stimulation. This silicon based array consists of a 4.2 x 4.2 x 0.12 mm thick monocrystalline substrate, from which project 100 conductive, silicon needles sharpened to facilit... | Electric Stimulation; Electrodes, Implanted; Sensory Cortex; Intracortical Electrode Array | 1991 |
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 | Bernstein, Paul S. | HPLC measurement of ocular carotenoid levels in human donor eyes in the lutein supplementation era. | PURPOSE: A substantial proportion of the population at risk for visual loss from age-related macular degeneration consumes supplements containing high doses of lutein, but clinical studies to date have shown only modest and variable increases in macular carotenoid pigments in response to supplementa... | Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Dietary Supplements; Tissue Donors | 2007-02 |
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 | Olson, Randall J. | Comparison of patient satisfaction after uncomplicated cataract surgery between the silicone AMO SI-30/40 and the acrylic Alcon MA30BA and MA60BA foldable intraocular lenses | PURPOSE: To compare patient satisfaction with vision 12 months after implantation of a silicone or acrylic foldable intraocular lens (IOL). SETTING: John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. METHODS: Selection criteria included patients who had uneventfu... | Patient Satisfaction; Lenses, Intraocular; Silicone Elastomers; Biocompatible Materials | 2001-10 |
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 | Baehr, Wolfgang | Identification and light-dependent translocation of a cone-specific antigen, (Cone Arrestin) recognized by monoclonal antibody 7G6 | PURPOSE: To elucidate the antigen recognized by monoclonal antibody (mAb) 7G6, a widely used cone-specific marker. METHODS: 7G6 immunocytochemistry was performed on sections of human, primate, and bovine retina. The antigen was immunoprecipitated from human retinal lysates and purified with protein ... | Cones (Retina); Molecular Sequence Data; Phototransduction | 2003 |
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 | Bernstein, Paul S. | Skin carotenoid status measured by resonance Raman spectroscopy as a biomarker of fruit and vegetable intake in preschool children | Background/Objective: Dietary assessment in children is difficult, suggesting a need to develop more objective biomarkers of intake. Resonance Raman spectroscopy (RRS) is a noninvasive, validated method of measuring carotenoid status in skin as a biomarker of fruit/vegetable intake. The purpose of t... | 2012-01-01 | |
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 | Frederick, Jeanne M. | The prenyl-binding protein PrBP/δ: A chaperone participating in intracellular trafficking | Expressed ubiquitously, PrBP/d functions as chaperone/co-factor in the transport of a subset of prenylated proteins. PrBP/d features an immunoglobulin-like b-sandwich fold for lipid binding, and interacts with diverse partners. PrBP/d binds both C-terminal C15 and C20 prenyl side chains of phototran... | 2012-01-01 | |
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 | Bernstein, Paul S. | Senior-Løken syndrome: a syndromic form of retinal dystrophy associated with nephronophthisis | Senior-Løken syndrome (SLS) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by development of a retinitis (RP)- or Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA)-like retinal dystrophy and a medullary cystic kidney disease, nephronophthisis. Mutations in several genes (called nephrocystins) have been shown to ca... | 2012-01-01 | |
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| Frederick, Jeanne M. | Uncoordinated (UNC)119: Coordinating the trafficking of myristoylated proteins | The mechanism by which myristoylated proteins are targeted to specific subcellular membrane compartments is poorly understood. Two novel acyl-binding proteins, UNC119A and UNC119B, have been shown recently to function as chaperones/co-factors in the transport of myristoylated G protein a-subunits an... | 2012-01-01 | |
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 | Kriesel, John D. | Helicase-primase inhibitor pritelivir for HSV-2 infection | Background Pritelivir, an inhibitor of the viral helicase-primase complex, exhibits antiviral activity in vitro and in animal models of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection. We tested the efficacy and safety of pritelivir in otherwise healthy persons with genital HSV-2 infection. Methods We randomly... | 2014-01-01 | |
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 | Moshirfar, Majid | The effect of preoperative keratometry on visual outcomes after moderate myopic LASIK | The relationship between preoperative keratometry (K) and visual outcomes in laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) has been studied in high myopia and hyperopia, but not in moderate myopia. Rao et al report increased undercorrection in eyes with preoperative spherical equivalent (SE) of −1... | 2012-01-01 | |
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 | Fuhrmann, Sabine | Extraocular ectoderm triggers dorsal retinal fate during optic vesicle evagination in zebrafish | Dorsal retinal fate is established early in eye development, via expression of spatially restricted dorsal‐specific transcription factors in the optic vesicle; yet the events leading to initiation of dorsal fate are not clear. We hypothesized that induction of dorsal fate would require an extraocu... | 2012-01-01 | |
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 | Crockett, David K. | Identification of histoplasma -specific peptides in human urine | Histoplasmosis is a severe dimorphic fungus infection, which is often difficult to diagnose due to similarity in symptoms to other diseases and lack of specific diagnostic tests. Urine samples from histoplasma-antigen-positive patients and appropriate controls were prepared using various sample prep... | 2012-01-01 | |
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 | Olson, Randall J. | Mathematical description of causative factors and prevention of elevated intraocular pressure after keratoplasty | In keratoplasty with grafts the same size as the recipient bed, tight sutures and thick recipient corneal periphery distort the angle and may collapse the filtering meshwork. This can cause very high postoperative pressures, which can be avoided by the use of donor grafts larger than the recipient b... | Keratoplasty; Trabecular Collapse; Angle Disrottion; Elevated Pressure; Aphakia; Mathematics | 1977-12 |
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 | Baehr, Wolfgang; Prestwich, Glenn D. | Photoreceptor cGMP phosphodiesterase delta subunit (PDEdelta) functions as a prenyl-binding protein | Bovine PDEdelta was originally copurified with rod cGMP phosphodiesterase (PDE) and shown to interact with prenylated, carboxymethylated C-terminal Cys residues. Other studies showed that PDEdelta can interact with several small GTPases including Rab13, Ras, Rap, and Rho6, all of which are prenylate... | Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer; GTP Phosphohydrolases; Immunohistochemistry | 2004 |
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 | Normann, Richard A. | Acute human brain responses to intracortical microelectrode arrays: challenges and future prospects | The emerging field of neuroprosthetics is focused on the development of new therapeutic interventions that will be able to restore some lost neural function by selective electrical stimulation or by harnessing activity recorded from populations of neurons. As more and more patients benefit from thes... | 2014-01-01 | |
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 | Normann, Richard A. | Adaptive parameter selection for asynchronous intrafascicular multi-electrode stimulation | This paper describes an adaptive algorithm for selecting perelectrode stimulus intensities and inter-electrode stimulation phasing to achieve desired isometric plantar-flexion forces via asynchronous, intrafascicular multi-electrode stimulation. The algorithm employed a linear model of force product... | 2012-01-01 | |
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 | Digre, Kathleen B.; Gouw, Launce G.; Harris, Catherine P.; Haines, John H.; Ptacek, L.J. | Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia with retinal degeneration: clinical, neuropathologic, and genetic analysis of a large kindred. | The autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias (ADCA) comprise a heterogeneous group of neurologic disorders characterized by degeneration of the cerebellum, spinal cord, and brainstem. Genetic analysis has revealed two loci, SCA1 on chromosome 6p, and SCA2 on chromosome 12q, responsible for some ADCA. W... | Retinal Degeneration; Cerebellar Ataxia; Genetic Analysis | 1994-08 |
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 | Digre, Kathleen B.; Kleinschmidt, Julia J.; Hanover, Rita | Idiopathic intracranial hypertension. Relationship to depression, anxiety, and quality of life | OBJECTIVE: To explore the incidence of depression and anxiety and to measure quality of life in women with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), a matched group cross-sectional study was conducted. Women with IIH (n = 28) were compared with control groups of weight- and age-matched women not d... | Intracranial Hypertension; Depression; Anxiety; Quality of Life | 2000-01-25 |
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 | Varner, Michael W.; Digre, Kathleen B. | Pseudotumor cerebri and pregnancy. | Pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) is most commonly seen in obese women of reproductive age. We studied 109 women with PTC between ages 16 and 44 years. In 11, PTC started during pregnancy. Thirteen women with previous diagnosis of PTC, including two of the aforementioned 11, had an additional 17 documented ... | Pregnancy Complications; Pseudotumor Cerebri; Vision disorders; Headache; Intracranial Pressure | 1984-06 |
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 | Swallow, Charles E.; Tsuruda, Jay S.; Digre, Kathleen B.; Glaser, Matthew J.; Davidson, H. Christian; Harnsberger, H. Ric | Terson syndrome: CT evaluation in 12 patients. | PURPOSE: Terson syndrome may be overlooked in the acute setting and often requires ophthalmologic intervention to prevent long-term visual loss. In this syndrome, vitreous or retinal hemorrhage results from an abrupt rise in intracranial pressure, leading to retinal venous hypertension and intraocul... | Retinal Hemorrhage; Visual Acuity; Vitreous Hemorrhage | 1998-04 |
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 | Bernstein, Paul S. | Human retinal pigment epithelial cell line that retains epithelial characteristics after prolonged culture | PURPOSE. A spontaneously arising, apparently transformed, cell line has been cloned from a primary culture of human retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells and has been subcultured more than 200 times. The similarities of these cells to human RPE cells in vivo have been determined. METHODS. The struc... | Cell Line, Transformed; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Phagocytosis | 1995 |