- ►nih.gov YW Wong, J Chew, H Yang, DTH Tan, R … - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2006 - bjo.bmj.com Methods: DNA microarray analysis of primary pterygium tissue was carried out
using uninvolved conjunctiva tissue as a comparison for gene expression levels.
Real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to verify the mRNA level ... Cited by 13 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
L Tong, J Li, J Chew, D Tan, R Beuerman - Cornea, 2008 - journals.lww.com Purpose: Pterygium is a fibro-vascular disease of unknown etiology characterized
by proliferation and advancement of tissue onto the cornea. Phospholipase Ds
(PLDs) are members of an important class of enzymes involved in ... Cited by 7 - Related articles - All 2 versions
M John-Aryankalayil, N Dushku, CJ Jaworski … - Mol Vis, 2006 - molvis.org Results: Thirty-four genes exhibited a 2 fold or greater difference in
expression between human whole pterygium and autologous conjunctiva. Twenty-nine
transcripts were increased and five transcripts were decreased in ... Cited by 19 - Related articles - Cached - All 3 versions
- ►iovs.org DTH Tan, YP Liu, L Sun - Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2000 - ARVO METHODS. Matched pterygium and superior conjunctiva tissue were obtained in 36
eyes of 36 patients undergoing pterygium excision with conjunctival autografting
(24 primary pterygia, 12 recurrent pterygia). Epithelial and fibrovascular ... Cited by 20 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
- ►iovs.org E Peiretti, S Dessi, M Putzolu, M Fossarello - Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2004 - ARVO PURPOSE. There is now increasing evidence that pterygium and pinguecula are
tumorlike tissues and that cell growth and DNA replication are closely linked to
cholesterol metabolism. In this study, the expression of two main genes ... Cited by 12 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
E Peiretti, S Dessì, MF Mulas, C Abete, MS … - Experimental eye research, 2006 - Elsevier To determine whether the fibrovascular proliferation observed in pterygium, may
be, at least in part, mediated by an increased activity of cholesterol
metabolism. The correlation between lipid metabolism and rate of growth was ... Cited by 7 - Related articles - All 4 versions
- ►iovs.org E Peiretti, S Dessi, C Mulas, C Abete, C Norfo … - Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 2007 - ARVO PURPOSE. The authors have previously shown that the growth of cultured
fibroblasts obtained from primary pterygia was associated with an increase in
cholesterol esterification, suggesting that alterations of cholesterol ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►amjpathol.org N Di Girolamo, M Coroneo, D Wakefield - American Journal of Pathology, 2005 - ASIP Pterygia are inflammatory, invasive, and proliferative lesions of the human
ocular surface in which the matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) collagenase-1 (MMP-1)
is highly expressed. Pterygia development may involve MMP-1 activity ... Cited by 30 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
JL Ooi, NS Sharma, S Sharma, D Papalkar, … - American journal of ophthalmology, 2007 - Elsevier In the 14 patients, 20 established pterygia were identified on standard
photography. On UVFP, four patterns of fluorescence of established pterygia were
identified. Of the 20 pterygia, six (30%) of 20 demonstrated fluorescence ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - All 4 versions
PL Chen, YW Cheng, CC Chiang, SH Tseng, … - Mol Vis, 2006 - molvis.org Purpose: A pterygium has long been considered as a degenerative condition. After
p53 protein was found to be abnormally expressed in the epithelium, researchers
suggested that a pterygium may be a tumor, but additional evidence is ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - Cached - All 3 versions
