- ►diabetesjournals.org S Kawahara, Y Hata, T Kita, R Arita, M Miura, S Nakao, … - Diabetes, 2008 - Am Diabetes Assoc OBJECTIVE—Despite tremendous progress in vitreoretinal surgery, certain postsurgical complications
limit the success in the treatment of proliferative vitreoretinal diseases (PVDs), such as proliferative
diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). One of the most ... Cited by 8 - Related articles - All 5 versions
- ►nih.gov J Sebag - Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental …, 2008 - Springer Invisible by design [1, 2], vitreous is often overlooked as an important structure, until “one sees
its beauty”. This remarkable structure is an extracellular matrix which has considerable importance
in ocular health and disease [3]. Composed primarily of water, vitreous is nonetheless a ... Cited by 10 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
[CITATION] Surgical anatomy of vitreous and the vitreo-retinal interface
J Sebag, P Gupta, RR Rosen, P Garcia, … - Transactions of the …, 2007 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Vitreoschisis was detected in 24 of 45 eyes (53.3%) with macular hole and 19 of 44 (43.2%)
with macular pucker. Retinal contraction was detected eccentrically in the macula of 18 of 45
eyes (40%) with macular hole. In eyes with macular hole with unifocal retinal contraction, ... Cited by 13 - Related articles - All 4 versions
- ►diabetesjournals.org T Kita, Y Hata, K Kano, M Miura, S Nakao, Y Noda, H … - Diabetes, 2007 - Am Diabetes Assoc The critical association of connective tissue growth factor (CTGF), which is thought to be one
of the downstream mediators of transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β), with vitreoretinal diseases
remains to be clarified. In the current study, we first demonstrated the correlation between ... Cited by 20 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►iovs.org K Hirayama, Y Hata, Y Noda, M Miura, I Yamanaka, H … - … ophthalmology & visual …, 2004 - ARVO METHODS. An in vitro type I collagen gel contraction assay using cultured bovine hyalocytes
was performed to evaluate the effect of PDGF-BB and TGF-ß2. The effect of both cytokines on
the phosphorylation of myosin light chain (MLC) was analyzed by Western blot analysis. ... Cited by 24 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
SK Gibran, B Flemming, T Stappler, I Pearce, C … - British Medical …, 2008 - bjo.bmj.com Results: Seventeen eyes in 17 patients were included. It was possible to double peel in all
cases. Five of 17 ERM specimens (29%) contained ILM fragments. When ILM was present on
the ERM, it represented less than 50% of the sample. One ILM specimen was lost as ... Cited by 4 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
C Haritoglou, RG Schumann, A Kampik, … - Archives of …, 2007 - archopht.highwire.org A 70-year-old woman had a deterioration of visual acuity to 20/50 OD and metamorphopsia in
the Amsler chart. Biomicroscopy of the right macular area using a 78-diopter lens revealed a
glistening reflex at the retinal surface with mild retinal folds, consistent with cellophane ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
- ►pnas.org T Kita, Y Hata, R Arita, S Kawahara, M … - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences Cicatricial contraction of preretinal fibrous membrane is a cause of severe vision loss in proliferative
vitreoretinal diseases such as proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and proliferative vitreoretinopathy
(PVR). TGF-β is overexpressed in the vitreous of patients with proliferative vitreoretinal ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - All 6 versions
CL Schönfeld - German journal of ophthalmology, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Under pathological conditions such as retinal detachment or proliferative vitreoretinopathy, the
normally quiescent retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) may proliferate. We investigated whether
hyalocytes, endogenous to the vitreous, might play a role in modulating the proliferation ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - BL Direct
