Abstract: Dry eye disease is the most prevalent ocular surface disease in eye clinics. The deficiency of tears is regarded as one of the main pathogenic factors for this disease. Due to the fact that the components of tears are still far beyond our knowledge, the restoration of physiological tears remains the optimum choice for dry eye patients. However, the traditional way to stimulate tear production by systemic administration of muscarinic agonists usually encounters severe side effects. Recently, Nakamachi and colleagues reported that PACAP, a native neurotransmitter present in tear fluid, could stimulate main lacrimal gland secretion and relieve dry eye-like symptoms in PACAP knockout mice. The finding of PACAP and its underlying mechanisms suggest a new modality for dry eye treatment via targeted topical tear stimulations.
Abstract: Dry eye disease is the most prevalent ocular surface disease in eye clinics. The deficiency of tears is regarded as one of the main pathogenic factors for this disease. Due to the fact that the components of tears are still far beyond our knowledge, the restoration of physiological tears remains the optimum choice for dry eye patients. However, the traditional way to stimulate tear production by systemic administration of muscarinic agonists usually encounters severe side effects. Recently, Nakamachi and colleagues reported that PACAP, a native neurotransmitter present in tear fluid, could stimulate main lacrimal gland secretion and relieve dry eye-like symptoms in PACAP knockout mice. The finding of PACAP and its underlying mechanisms suggest a new modality for dry eye treatment via targeted topical tear stimulations.
近年来，由于经济社会不断发展，社会压力增大，人们精神障碍和干眼的发病率不断增加，这既影响人们身心健康，也给社会经济造成一定负担。大量研究表明精神障碍与干眼显著相关，精神障碍是干眼的独立危险因素之一。然而在临床工作中，精神障碍与干眼间的关系在过去一直未受到重视，本文将从精神障碍与干眼关联性入手，探讨其中介作用，总结了精神障碍因素影响干眼症状和体征分离，并进一步倡导跨学科综合管理来治疗干眼，形成对干眼的正确感知并降低疼痛及健康焦虑水平，以期为干眼临床诊疗提供新的视角。
In recent years, due to the continuous development of economy and society and the increasing social pressure, the incidence rate of mental disorders and dry eyes is increasing, which not only affects people’s physical and mental health, but also creates a certain burden on the social economy. A large number of studies have shown that mental disorder is significantly related to dry eye, and mental disorder is one of the independent risk factors of dry eye. However, in clinical work, the relationship between mental disorder and dry eye has not been paid attention in the past. This paper will start with the correlation between mental disorder and dry eye, explore the mediating effects, summarize the mental disorder factors that affect the separation of symptoms and signs of dry eye, and further advocate interdisciplinary comprehensive management to treat dry eye, form a correct perception of dry eye and reduce the level of pain and health anxiety, In order to provide a new perspective for clinical diagnosis and treatment of dry eye.
鼻内镜外科技术延伸到鼻眼相关疾病的诊断和治疗已经有二十余年的历史。随着鼻眼相关解剖研究、影像诊断技术和手术器械的进步和手术临床经验的积累，大量临床和基础研究不断涌现，逐渐形成了相对成熟的内镜鼻眼相关外科理论与实践体系。本文概述了内镜鼻眼相关外科的发展现状，对几种主要手术提供经验总结并提出展望。
Nasal endoscopic surgery technology has gradually developed and involved into the diagnosis and treatment of nose-eye related disease for more than 20 years. With the improvement of anatomical studies on nose-eye, imaging diagnostic technology and surgical instruments, the accumulation of surgical clinical experience, as well as the increasing emergence of a large number of clinical and basic studies on endoscopic rhino-orbital related surgery, a well-established theoretical and practical system of endoscopic nose-eye surgery has gradually been formed. This article summarized the development of endoscopic rhino-orbital surgery, and the advantages and limitations of several major surgical methods. Also, the further research was prospected.
霍纳综合征是一种由眼交感神经传出通路中任意部分中断所造成的临床综合征，常以上睑下垂、瞳孔缩小等眼部特征为主要临床表现，往往提示头、颈或胸部严重疾病或术后并发症的发生。现报告1例49岁的男性患者，曾在武汉市中心医院耳鼻喉科行右侧咽旁间隙肿物切除术，术后第1天出现右眼上睑下垂，瞳孔缩小，伴同侧面部无汗。术后随访半年，上述症状未见明显改善。右侧咽旁间隙肿物的病理结果证实为交感干神经鞘瘤，该病例临床较为罕见。
Horner syndrome is caused by damage of the oculosympathetic pathway. It is a common disorder characterized by ocular signs such as ptosis and miosis, and these signs usually indicate the occurrence of severe head, neck and chest diseases or surgical complications. We report a case of 49-year-old male patient who underwent parapharyngeal space tumor resection in the Department of otolaryngology. On postoperative day one, the patient presented right eyelid drooping, the right pupil constricted, and the absence of sweating on the right side of the face. After six months of follow-up, the above signs still presented and showed no significant change. T??he pathological assessment of the resected parapharyngeal space tumor demonstrated that it is the sympathetic trunk schwannoma, which is relatively rare in clinical practice.
永存胚胎血管(persistent fetal vasculature，PFV)，也称永存原始玻璃体增生症( persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous，PHPV)，是一种先天性眼病，多发现于婴幼儿时期。因大多数患儿单眼发病、症状隐匿，且易被误诊为单纯的先天性白内障，常常延误手术治疗的最佳时机。因此，正确的诊断和适宜治疗方式的选择对于患儿视功能的预后尤为重要。本文报道了1例6岁6个月的男性患儿，诊断为混合型PFV，眼部特征表现为先天性白内障和黄斑区结构错位。
Persistent fetal vasculature (PFV), also known as persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous (PHPV), is a congenital ocular anomaly, which is common in infants and young children. Due to most children have unilateral occurrence, insidious symptoms and are easily misdiagnosed as simple congenital cataract, the optimum time for treatment is often delayed. Therefore, correct diagnosis and appropriate treatment are particularly significant for the prognosis of PFV children’s visual function. A male child aged 6 years and 6 months with a diagnosis of combined PFV is reported, whose ocular features were congenital cataract and structural dislocation of macula.
目的：探究短期周边遮盖对成年视皮层双眼优势平衡的作用。方法：对12名正常成年人的各眼 (24只眼)分别进行单眼短期周边遮盖。遮盖方式为单眼佩戴90 min的环形、半透明的塑料遮盖板，遮盖板仅能透光，中央留有1 0°~15°视野范围的圆孔，从而实现周边遮盖。受试者在周边遮盖前、遮盖后的0~3、3~6、6~9、9~12、12~15、30、60和90 min均完成双眼竞争任务 (binocular rivalry task)。记录并分析各时间段中各眼的占优时间、双眼竞争在眼别间切换周期数和各眼占优概率随时间改变的特点等。每位受试者左右眼测试间隔1周进行。结果：在遮盖前，12名正常成年受试者被遮盖眼的占优时间与非遮盖眼的差异无统计学意义(92.78±6.33 s vs 87.22±6.23 s，P>0.05)，提示眼优势平衡。遮盖去除后的0~3 min，被遮盖眼占优比例显著增加至 0.721±0.11(P<0.001)，该效应在遮盖去除后的3~30 min均存在(P<0.05)，直至60 min(P=0.445)双眼基本恢复优势平衡。双眼优势转换周期在周边遮盖前后差异无统计学意义(P=0.064)。主导眼在去除周边遮盖后的0~3 min遮盖眼占优时间比例相对基线的改变幅度与遮盖非主导眼的差异无统 计学意义(P=0.835)。结论：短期的周边遮盖可改变成年双眼优势平衡，有望应用于视觉关键期后的弱视治疗中。视觉关键期后双眼视功能仍保留有一定的可塑性。
Objective: To study the effect of short-term peripheral patching on binocular dominance in adult visual cortex. Methods: Monocular short-term peripheral patching was performed on each eye (24 eyes) of 12 normal adults. The patching was achieved by monocularly wearing a ring-shaped, translucent and plastic patch for 90 minutes. The patch could only transmit light, but not pattern, and there was a circular hole with a visual field of 10°–15°, so as to achieve peripheral patching. Participants completed the binocular rivalry task at baseline and 0–3, 3–6, 6–9, 9–12, 12–15, 30, 60 and 90 min after peripheral patching. The dominance duration of each eye and the number of dominance switches between eyes were recorded. The probability of perceiving stimulus of each eye was calculated in each time period. Each participant’s both left and right eyes performed peripheral patching one week apart. Results: Before patching, the dominance duration of the patched eye was not significantly different from the non-patched eye (92.78±6.33 s vs 87.22±6.23 s, P>0.05), which suggests that the eye dominance was balanced. At 0–3 min after the removal of the patch, the dominance duration of the patched eye was increased significantly (P<0.001), and this effect existed until 30 min after the removal of the patch (P<0.05). The dominance duration of the patched eye at post-60 min was not significantly different from the baseline (P=0.445). There was no significant difference in the dominance switches among baseline and each period after patching (P=0.064). After the removal of patch on the dominant eye, the amplitude of change in the dominance duration of the patched eye at 0–3 min was not significantly different from that after the removal of patch on the non-dominant eyes (P=0.835). Conclusion: Short-term peripheral patching can also change the binocular dominance in adults, and it has the potential to be applied in treatment of adult amblyopia. After the critical period for visual development, binocular vision function still retains plasticity.
Background: The ex vivo model represented by mouse retinal explants in culture is a useful experimental model to investigate the molecular mechanism involved in neurovascular diseases such as diabetic retinopathy (DR). It ensures an experimental overview with more complete respect to isolate cells and reduce problems in terms of accessibility and management with respect to in vivo model. In particular, it allows the evaluation of the relationship between retinal cells in response to the typical stressors involved in DR pathogenesis.
Methods: Ex vivo retinal fragments derived from 3- to 5-week-old C57BL/6J mice. In particular, after dissection, the retina is cut into 4 separate fragments and transferred onto inserts placed with ganglion cells up. Once in culture, the explants could be treated in stress conditions typical of DR. In particular, this study protocol describes the procedure for the preparation and the culture of retinal explants with specific metabolic stressors such as high glucose (HG), advanced glycation end product (AGE), and oxidative stress (OS). In the end, this paper provides the protocols to perform molecular analyses in order to evaluate the response of retinal explants to stress and/or neuroprotective treatments.
Discussion: The cultured retinal explants represent an ex vivo experimental model to investigate the molecular mechanisms involved in neurovascular diseases such as DR. Moreover, they could be useful to test the effect of neuroprotective compounds in response to metabolic stressors in a fewer time respect to an in vivo model. In conclusion, retinal explants in culture represent a valuable experimental model to conduct further studies to better understand the pathophysiology of DR.
Background: The ex vivo model represented by mouse retinal explants in culture is a useful experimental model to investigate the molecular mechanism involved in neurovascular diseases such as diabetic retinopathy (DR). It ensures an experimental overview with more complete respect to isolate cells and reduce problems in terms of accessibility and management with respect to in vivo model. In particular, it allows the evaluation of the relationship between retinal cells in response to the typical stressors involved in DR pathogenesis.
Methods: Ex vivo retinal fragments derived from 3- to 5-week-old C57BL/6J mice. In particular, after dissection, the retina is cut into 4 separate fragments and transferred onto inserts placed with ganglion cells up. Once in culture, the explants could be treated in stress conditions typical of DR. In particular, this study protocol describes the procedure for the preparation and the culture of retinal explants with specific metabolic stressors such as high glucose (HG), advanced glycation end product (AGE), and oxidative stress (OS). In the end, this paper provides the protocols to perform molecular analyses in order to evaluate the response of retinal explants to stress and/or neuroprotective treatments.
Discussion: The cultured retinal explants represent an ex vivo experimental model to investigate the molecular mechanisms involved in neurovascular diseases such as DR. Moreover, they could be useful to test the effect of neuroprotective compounds in response to metabolic stressors in a fewer time respect to an in vivo model. In conclusion, retinal explants in culture represent a valuable experimental model to conduct further studies to better understand the pathophysiology of DR.
Background: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is considered as the most common reason for blindness in children, particularly in preterm infants. The disease is characterized by the dysregulation of angiogenic mechanisms due to preterm birth, leading ultimately to vascular abnormalities and pathological neovascularization (NV). Retinal detachment and vision loss could represent a concrete risk connected to the most severe forms of ROP, also characterized by inflammation and retinal cell death.
Methods: During the last decades, many animal models of oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR) have been recognized as useful tools to study the mechanisms of disease, since they reproduce the hallmarks typical of human ROP. Indeed, modulation of retinal vascular development by exposure to different oxygen protocols is possible in these animals, reproducing the main pathological phenotypes of the disease. The easy quantification of abnormal NV and the possibility to perform electrophysiologic, histological and molecular analyses on these models, make OIR animals a fundamental instrument in studying the pathophysiology of ROP and the effects of novel treatments against the disease.
Discussion: Here, the most commonly used OIR protocols in rodents, such as mice and rats, are described as well as the main pathological outcomes typical of these models. Despite their limitations and variables which should be considered whilst using these models, OIR models display several characteristics which have also been confirmed in human patients, validating the usefulness of such animals in the pre-clinical research of ROP.
Background: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is considered as the most common reason for blindness in children, particularly in preterm infants. The disease is characterized by the dysregulation of angiogenic mechanisms due to preterm birth, leading ultimately to vascular abnormalities and pathological neovascularization (NV). Retinal detachment and vision loss could represent a concrete risk connected to the most severe forms of ROP, also characterized by inflammation and retinal cell death.
Methods: During the last decades, many animal models of oxygen-induced retinopathy (OIR) have been recognized as useful tools to study the mechanisms of disease, since they reproduce the hallmarks typical of human ROP. Indeed, modulation of retinal vascular development by exposure to different oxygen protocols is possible in these animals, reproducing the main pathological phenotypes of the disease. The easy quantification of abnormal NV and the possibility to perform electrophysiologic, histological and molecular analyses on these models, make OIR animals a fundamental instrument in studying the pathophysiology of ROP and the effects of novel treatments against the disease.
Discussion: Here, the most commonly used OIR protocols in rodents, such as mice and rats, are described as well as the main pathological outcomes typical of these models. Despite their limitations and variables which should be considered whilst using these models, OIR models display several characteristics which have also been confirmed in human patients, validating the usefulness of such animals in the pre-clinical research of ROP.
