{"title":"Application of 25-National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire in ophthalmological patients","authors":"Luciano Mesquite Simmo, Carissa Fouad Ibrahim, Senice Alvarenga Rodrigues Silva, Thai Nunes Andrade, Doora Faleiros Leite, Roberto Ferreira de Almeida Arajo","doi":"10.52274/ISPMED20201025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52274/ISPMED20201025","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: To compare the vision-targeted health related quality of life (HRQOL) between neuro-ophthalmological patients and other eye diseases by the National Eye Institute 25-Item Visual Function Questionnaire. Methods: Cross sectional study with a control group and patients with the following pathologies: primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), diabetic retinopathy (DR), age-related macular degeneration (ARMD), non-arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), intracranial hypertension (IH), optic neuritis (ON), ptosis and cataract. Results: All comparisons of the subscales scores among the control group and the patient groups were statistically significant (p<0.05) except for “ocular pain” (p=0.160), “social functioning” (p=0.052) and “peripheral vision” (p=0.112). The control group had the best scores across all dimensions of the NEI VFQ-25. Interestingly, the ARMD and cataract groups presented the best and worst total scores of NEI VFQ-25, respectively. The lowest subscales scores were found in the cataract, in the NAION/ON, and in the POAG groups. Finally, the comparison between the NAION/ON/IH patients and the other eye diseases did not show statistical significance in any subscale. Conclusion: The NEI VFQ-25 showed the impact of various eye conditions in vision-targeted HRQOL, and no difference was measured between neuro-ophthalmological patients and other eye diseases","PeriodicalId":243745,"journal":{"name":"ISP Medicine","volume":"70 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114090528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rabbit Normal Regenerating Pancreas Extract induces rat BM-MSCs into Pancreatic Islet-like Structure Cells in vitro","authors":"Huifeng Wang, Yichen Xu, Liqing Wu, Yali Kou, Zhuo Wu, Wen-hong Zhao, Y. Wei, Hongjing Liu, Weiping Chen","doi":"10.52274/ispmed20190908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52274/ispmed20190908","url":null,"abstract":"Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) could differentiate into Insulin Producing Cells(IPCs) with notable advantages. The present study tried to develop a method may be able to use a normal regenerating pancreas extract(N-RPE) medium to induce BM-MSCs into islet phenotype, in tests to assess how efficient method and simple duplicate the novel condition medium protocol is. Isolate and purify MSCs from rat bone marrow. BM-MSCs were differentiated into Adipogenic, Osteogenic and Myocardium and the lineages were assessed its multi-lineage potential. Islet differentiation medium, blending rabbit conditioned medium N-RPE, was administered to rat BM-MSCs. After 15 days, differentiation was evaluated by lineage-specific morphology and three stages could be observed: induced cells, islet like cells(ILCs) and islet like structures(ILSs). The morphology, SEM, DTZ staining, Mallory staining, HE staining and glucose stimulation demonstrated that the N-RPE could stimulate suitable development microenvironment to supply the islet differentiate from BM-MSCs. In addition, islet-related genes (ins/glu) expression and proteins(insulin/glucagon) expression suggested that culture medium rabbit N-RPE enhanced the rat BM-MSCs transdifferentiation efficiency. N-RPE derived from normal pancreas tissue could promote pancreas development of microenvironment and significantly enhance the transdifferentiation of BM-MSCs into ILSs. Results from this work will contribute to optimize the conditions of BM-MSCs and supply a new strategy for the development of islet tissue engineering.","PeriodicalId":243745,"journal":{"name":"ISP Medicine","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126700586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}