Sentences with word «ciliary»

Another surgical option is called ciliary body endolaser photoablation, which decreases the amount of fluid produced inside the eye.

All of these results are highly suggestive of primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD).

After adjustment for other factors, age was also related to a decrease in the diameter of the ring of ciliary muscles that change the shape of the lens in the process of accommodation.

ANTAGENE, a DNA research laboratory in France, offers a DNA test that detects the mutation that causes Primary Ciliary dyskinesia in Old English Sheepdog.

In the future, developing new techniques of measuring ciliary muscle ring diameter might help in providing a «customized» IOL fit for treatment to correct presbyopia.

We undertook, a couple of years ago, a phase one trial for one such neuro enhancing therapeutic called ciliary neurotrophic factor or CNTF.

The regulation and activatin of ciliary neurotrophic factor signaling proteins in adipocytes.

a. Normal ciliary axoneme with one central pair of microtubules (arrow) and nine peripheral microtubular doublets (arrow head).

Defective ciliary function therefore leads to defective destruction of key proteins, which then causes problems in interpreting the Wnt signal.

Though appearing more like a cluster of colorful balloons, this 30x image from Nagoya University shows individually - labeled axons in an embryonic chick ciliary ganglion, part of the eye's nerve structure.

Last, we are studying the functional diversification of RFX and ciliary proteins in ciliogenesis and neuronal morphogenesis.

Abbreviations: BrdU, 5 - bromo -2-deoxyuridine; CMZ, ciliary marginal zone; EFTF, eye field transcription factor; ERG, electroretinogram; GABA, gamma - aminobutyric acid; LE, lateral endoderm; N, number of animals or eyes; PNP, posterior neural plate; RPE, retinal pigment epithelium; YFP, yellow fluorescent protein

The Penn researchers found that the fungal toxins activate protein kinase C (PKC), which decreases ciliary beat frequency and thus decreases MCC.

Anne Janis, who leads the data collection for seizure disorders, rhinitis (primary ciliary dyskinesis) and liver shunt has offered to collect information on dogs with presumed FCE.

The best options for a blind, glaucomatous eye are intraocular prosthesis, enucleation, or intraocular injection (ciliary ablation).

But the results also led to a new discovery: eyes with myopia had a larger ciliary muscle ring diameter.

«So corals could provide a general model for understanding ciliary processes related to disease.»

His lab continues to investigate the molecular causes behind ciliary disorders, with emphasis on the signaling roles of cilia, the mechanisms behind how genes interact to cause rare genetic disorders, and possible treatments for these conditions.

We want to understand how different RFX transcription factors are required for ciliogenesis control and how they are involved in ciliary specialization in mouse tissues.

Perisynaptic surface distribution of multiple classes of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors on neurons in the chicken ciliary ganglion.

In zebrafish, injection of low doses of both Tuba and Cdc42 antisense morpholinos, which had no effect when administered separately, led to severe phenotypes similar to those seen following knockdown of other ciliary proteins.

Green tea contains L - theanine, an immune - enhancing amino acid which Grossan says increases ciliary activity.

Risk analysis for seizures in the IW, as well as for PRA (progressive retinal atrophy) & PCD (primary ciliary dyskensia), is now available to breeders as a tool for decision making in their breeding programs.

b. Ciliary axoneme from a dog with PCD with central pair abnormalities.

Margret Casal, Assistant Professor of Medical Genetics, Univeristy of Pennsylvania; Epilepsy and Primary Ciliary Dyskenesia in the Irish Wolfhound

Ciliary body cysts or iris cysts are small fluid - filled sacs in the eye.

The first international patient registry has been launched for primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD)-- a rare lung disease causing long - term and recurring respiratory infections, with no approved treatments and no cure.

Expression trends of specific genes related to muco - ciliary function and airway restitution as compared with smoking status and lung cancer: TFF3, CABYR, and MUC5AC are over expressed in current smokers with lowered expression in both former and never smokers.

Especially in the middle of a park, an ostensible respite from urban chaos — an opportunity to engage one's ciliary muscles to gaze into the distance, rather than a high - contrast close - up screen.

We now show that astrocytes generated from the same population of human fetal glial precursor cells, by exposure to either bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) or ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF), promote widely divergent outcomes with respect to repairing the injured adult spinal cord.

Ciliary dyskinesis - This is a syndrome which has been reported in the Chinese Shar - Pei in which the cilia (microscopic hair - like projections on the epithelial cells which line the upper airways) are malformed or nonexistent.

Co-culture of embryonic chick heart cells and ciliary ganglia induces parasympathetic responsiveness in embryonic chick heart cells

Lipschutz and others previously showed that the exocyst, a protein targeting complex, plays a crucial role in receiving these «zip - coded packages» containing ciliary proteins.

U-M also offers special expertise in caring for rare respiratory disorders including primary ciliary dyskinesia and interstitial lung disease.

While PCD may be suspected based on history, clinical signs, diagnostic imaging and endoscopy, final diagnosis requires the observation of ciliary structure abnormalities after ciliogenesis (i.e. culture of ciliated cells) of biopsies of ciliated epithelium (i.e. the nasal, tracheal or bronchial mucosa) with the use of transmission electron microscopy.

Yu said the impairment of sensory nerve regeneration in diabetic corneas is due to decreased ciliary neurotrophic factor, as evidenced by the fact that dendritic cells express ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) in normal and healing corneas but decrease in diabetic corneas due to the reduced infiltration of dendritic cells.

The immune cells appear to travel to the lens via a web of ligaments that suspends the lens and connects it to the surrounding muscle tissue called the ciliary body, rich with immune - cell - carrying blood vessels.

The main function of the ciliary body is to control the shape of the lens and help us focus.

They already are exploring what these miRNA do in the trabecular meshwork that manages the continuous drainage of fluid made by the ciliary body to nourish and oxygenate a portion of the eye that has no direct blood supply.

«Scientifically, she worked on a project that not only revealed an important role for a specific growth factor (VEGF) in the physiology of an ocular structure called the ciliary body but she also demonstrated that there might be unexpected and undesired side effects from a widely used treatment for a variety of ocular diseases.

Uveal melanoma is a cancer of the iris, ciliary body, or choroid — structures in the eye collectively known as the uvea.

This tightening of the ciliary ring may also contribute to the development of presbyopia in older eyes.