70-0.25) and Aspergillus oryzae PR07 (0.68). The enzyme producing fungal strains might be involved in the rice meju fermentation. The identification of fungal diversity in meju is useful for understanding the fermentation processes and these strains might be used in the fermentation of foods.”
“PURPOSE: To investigate the predictability, safety, and efficiency of wavefront-guided laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) with iris-registration technology to correct mixed astigmatism.
SETTING: Vision correction center, Alexandria, Egypt.
METHODS: This retrospective double-blind study included randomly selected patients with mixed astigmatism who sought laser refractive surgery. Patients were divided equally into
3 groups and treated with conventional LASIK and manual marking, CFTR inhibitor wavefront-guided LASIK and manual marking, or wavefront-guided LASIK with iris registration (LASIK+IR group). Eyes were analyzed pre-operatively and up to 3 months postoperatively.
RESULTS:
The LASIK + IR group had better postoperative uncorrected visual acuity (100% 20/30 or better; 90% 20/20 or better; 20% 20/16 or better) than the other groups and did not lose preoperative best spectacle-corrected visual acuity, unlike the other groups. This group also had the highest percentage of eyes that gained lines of acuity (20% 1 line; 10% 2 lines). The LASIK+IR group had the highest predictability of spherical refraction (80% within +/- 0.50 diopter [D]; 100% within +/- 1.00 D [P<.05] and the highest predictability of cylinder refraction. The LASIK + IR eyes had a significantly smaller increase postoperatively in coma, trefoil, Cell Cycle inhibitor and secondary astigmatism. There was no significant difference between groups in spherical aberration or quadrafoil. The LASIK-IR group had the most
improvement in scotopic contrast sensitivity (P<.05).
CONCLUSIONS: Wavefront-guided LASIK with iris registration see more was more predictable, safe, and efficient than conventional or wavefront-guided LASIK with manual marking in correcting mixed astigmatism. Further studies are needed to confirm these results.”
“Steroid hormones such as aldosterone and estrogens have been increasingly appreciated as important physiological and pathophysiological regulators of cardiovascular functions. These actions are mediated in part by their ‘traditional’ steroid receptors such as estrogen and mineralocorticoid receptors via well-described transcriptional mechanisms. However, many of the effects of steroids occur over a time course not explained by these longer-term transcriptional mechanisms. These more rapid actions have been shown to have important effects on vascular reactivity and a wide range of second messengers and enzymes.
Elucidating the mechanisms and biological impact of these rapid steroid effects has been confounded by our lack of appreciation of the cell types on which these steroids were mediating their rapid effects, and the receptor(s) with which they were interacting.