JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/40502
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Author Kumase, Fumiaki| Morizane, Yuki| Mohri, Satoshi| Takasu, Ippei| Ohtsuka, Aiji| Ohtsuki, Hiroshi|
Abstract Endothelial glycocalyx (GCX) has been reported as a protective factor for vascular endothelial cells (VEC) in diabetes and hypertension. However, the involvement of GCX impairment in ocular vasculopathy remains unclear. We evaluated the changes in the GCX thicknesses of the retinal and choroidal capillaries in rats with diabetes and hypertension by cationic colloidal iron staining using a transmission electron microscope. In the control group, the mean (standard error of the mean) thicknesses of retinal and choroidal GCX were 60.2 (1.5) nm and 84.3 (3.1) nm, respectively. The diabetic rats showed a significant decrease of GCX thickness in the retina, but not in the choroid, compared to controls (28.3 (0.3) nm, p<0.01 and 77.8 (1.4) nm, respectively). In the hypertensive rats, both retinal and choroidal GCX were significantly decreased compared to the control values (10.9 (0.4) nm and 13.2 (1.0) nm, respectively, both p<0.01). Moreover, we could visualize the adhesion of leukocytes and platelets on the luminal surface of VEC, at the site where the GCX was markedly degraded. These findings suggest that the GCX prevents adhesion of leukocytes and platelets to the VEC surface, and this impairment may lead to ocular vasculopathy in diabetes and hypertension.
Keywords glycocalyx retina choroid diabetes hypertension
Amo Type Original Article
Publication Title Acta Medica Okayama
Published Date 2010-10
Volume volume64
Issue issue5
Publisher Okayama University Medical School
Start Page 277
End Page 283
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
Content Type Journal Article
language English
Copyright Holders CopyrightⒸ 2010 by Okayama University Medical School
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Refereed True
PubMed ID 20975760
Web of Science KeyUT 000283563300002
Author Kurauchi, Tomomi| Yokota, Kenji| Matsuo, Toshihiko| Fujinami, Yoshihito| Isogai, Emiko| Isogai, Hiroshi| Ohtsuki, Hiroshi| Oguma, Keiji|
Published Date 2005-02-01
Publication Title FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology
Volume volume43
Issue issue2
Content Type Journal Article
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/32833
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Author Fujiwara, Hirotake| Matsuo, Toshihiko| Sato, Masako| Yamane, Takashi| Kitada, Mizue| Hasebe, Satoshi| Ohtsuki, Hiroshi|
Abstract

The purpose of this study was to search for chromosomal susceptibility loci for comitant strabismus. Genomic DNA was isolated from 10mL blood taken from each member of 30 nuclear families in which 2 or more siblings are affected by either esotropia or exotropia. A genome-wide search was performed with amplification by polymerase chain reaction of 400 markers in microsatellite regions with approximately 10 cM resolution. For each locus, non-parametric affected sib-pair analysis and non-parametric linkage analysis for multiple pedigrees (Genehunter software, http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/soft/) were used to calculate multipoint lod scores and non-parametric linkage (NPL) scores, respectively. In sib-pair analysis, lod scores showed basically flat lines with several peaks of 0.25 on all chromosomes. In non-parametric linkage analysis for multiple pedigrees, NPL scores showed one peak as high as 1.34 on chromosomes 1, 2, 4, 7, 10, 15, and 16, while 2 such peaks were found on chromosomes 3, 9, 11, 12, 18, and 20. Non-parametric linkage analysis for multiple pedigrees of 30 families with comitant strabismus suggested a number of chromosomal susceptibility loci. Our ongoing study involving a larger number of families will refine the accuracy of statistical analysis to pinpoint susceptibility loci for comitant strabismus.</P>

Keywords chromosomal susceptibility locus esotropia exotropia genome-wide search strabismus
Amo Type Article
Publication Title Acta Medica Okayama
Published Date 2003-06
Volume volume57
Issue issue3
Publisher Okayama University Medical School
Start Page 109
End Page 116
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
Content Type Journal Article
language English
File Version publisher
Refereed True
PubMed ID 12908008
Web of Science KeyUT 000183816500002
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/32803
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Author yamane, Takashi| Matsuo, Toshihiko| Hasebe, Satoshi| Ohtsuki, Hiroshi|
Abstract

The purpose of this study was to elucidate the role of extracellular matrix components such as aggrecan, fibronectin, and laminin in the extraocular muscle of patients with strabismus. Resected tissues of the medial rectus muscle of 47 patients with intermittent exotropia obtained during recession-resection surgery were frozen under liquid nitrogen and pulverized by a Freezer/Mill to solubilize the tissue for enzyme immunoassay. The total amounts of aggrecan, fibronectin, and laminin in the resected tissue were correlated with clinical data of patients such as age, exodeviation, and refractive error. The amount of aggrecan decreased significantly with the advance of age (P < 0.0001, Spearman rank correlation test), while the amount of laminin or fibronectin had no correlation with age. Patients with basic type intermittent exotropia showed larger, although not significantly, amounts of aggrecan than those with convergence insufficiency type (P = 0.0538, Mann-Whitney U-test). The amount of aggrecan may be related to motor aspects of intermittent exotropia.

Keywords extraocular muscle aggrecan laminin fibronectin intermittent extropia
Amo Type Article
Publication Title Acta Medica Okayama
Published Date 2003-08
Volume volume57
Issue issue4
Publisher Okayama University Medical School
Start Page 199
End Page 204
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
Content Type Journal Article
language English
File Version publisher
Refereed True
PubMed ID 14627072
Web of Science KeyUT 000184987100006
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/31966
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Author Jiang, Yan| Matsuo, Toshihiko| Fujiwara, hirotake| Hasebe, Satoshi| Ohtsuki, Hiroshi| Yasuda, Tatsuji|
Abstract

To identify ARIX gene and PHOX2B gene polymorphisms in patients with congenital superior oblique muscle palsy, 3 exons of the ARIX gene and PHOX2B gene were sequenced by genomic DNA amplification with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and direct sequencing in 31 patients with congenital superior oblique muscle palsy and in 54 normal individuals. A family with a father and one daughter each having congenital superior oblique muscle palsy was also included in this study. Eleven patients with congenital superior oblique muscle palsy had heterozygous nucleotide changes in the ARIX gene, including 4 patients reported on previously. One patient with atrophy of the superior oblique muscle had a new change of T-4G in the promoter region of the ARIX gene. The other 6 patients had a heterozygous nucleotide change of G153A in the 5'-untranslated region (UTR) of the exon 1 of the ARIX gene. These nucleotide changes of the ARIX gene, taken together, had a significant association with congenital superior oblique muscle palsy(P = 0.0022). One patient and 5 patients had heterozygous nucleotide changes of A1106 C and A1121 C in exon 3 of the PHOX2B gene, respectively, while these changes were absent in the normal individuals. Two patients had both the G153A change in the 5'-UTR of exon 1 of the ARIX gene and the A1121 C change in exon 3 of the PHOX2B gene. In conclusion, the polymorphisms of the ARIX gene and PHOX2B gene may be genetic risk factors for the development of congenital superior oblique muscle palsy.

Keywords congenital superior oblique muscle palsy congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles (CFEOM) ARIX PHOX2B polymorphism
Amo Type Article
Publication Title Acta Medica Okayama
Published Date 2005-04
Volume volume59
Issue issue2
Publisher Okayama University Medical School
Start Page 55
End Page 62
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
Content Type Journal Article
language English
File Version publisher
Refereed True
PubMed ID 16049556
Web of Science KeyUT 000228590000004
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/31728
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Author Nomoto, Hiroyuki| Oohashi, Toshitaka| Hirakawa, Satoshi| Ueki, Yasuyoshi| Ohtsuki, Hiroshi| Ninomiya, Yoshifumi|
Abstract

We herein determined by fluorescence in situ hybridization the chromosomal localization of 2 human genes, BRAL1 and BCAN, both of which belong to the link-module superfamily, i.e. to the same band of chromosome 1q21-23. Further analysis of the genomic organization of BRAL1 and BCAN revealed that the BRAL1 gene was located 20-kb upstream of the BCAN start site. We isolated a polymorphic dinucleotide (CA) repeat sequence from a genomic clone containing the BCAN gene. High heterozygosity (0.79) makes this polymorphism a useful marker in the study of genetic disorders. Knowledge of the structure of the genes and the marker provides essential information for further analysis of the gene locus at chromosome 1q21-23.

Keywords BRAL1 BCAN FISH schizophrenia polymorphic marker
Amo Type Article
Publication Title Acta Medica Okayama
Published Date 2002-02
Volume volume56
Issue issue1
Publisher Okayama University Medical School
Start Page 25
End Page 29
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
Content Type Journal Article
language English
File Version publisher
Refereed True
PubMed ID 11873941
Web of Science KeyUT 000174031300005
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/30985
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Author Imai, Sayuri| Matsuo, Toshihiko| Itoshima, Emi| Ohtsuki, Hiroshi|
Abstract

We analyzed nucleotide changes in 3 genes, ARIX, PHOX2B, and KIF21A, in 6 patients of 3 families with congenital superior oblique muscle palsy. Three exons of ARIX, 3 exons of PHOX2B, and exons 8, 20, and 21 of KIF21A were amplified by polymerase chain reaction from genomic DNA isolated from the peripheral blood. The DNA fragments were directly sequenced in both directions. In 2 different families, a heterozygous nucleotide change, ARIX 153G>A, in the 5’-untranslated region was found in common between a father and daughter with muscle palsy and between a mother and daughter with muscle palsy (Family No. 1 and No. 3). In the other family (Family No. 2), a heterozygous 15-nucleotide deletion, PHOX2B 1124del15, resulting in loss of 5 alanine residues in the alanine repeat of the protein, was found in the daughter with muscle palsy and her father with normal traits, but was not found in the mother with muscle palsy. No KIF21A nucleotide change was found in any patients. The ARIX 153G>A polymorphism might be a genetic risk factor for the development of congenital superior oblique muscle palsy.

Keywords ARIX PHOX2B KIF21A congenital superior oblique muscle palsy familial (hereditary) disease
Amo Type Original Article
Publication Title Acta Medica Okayama
Published Date 2008-02
Volume volume62
Issue issue1
Publisher Okayama University Medical School
Start Page 45
End Page 53
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
Content Type Journal Article
language English
File Version publisher
Refereed True
PubMed ID 18323871
Web of Science KeyUT 000253549500007
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/30955
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Author Suemaru, Junko| Hasebe, Satoshi| Ohtsuki, Hiroshi|
Abstract

The aim of this study is to clarify visual symptoms and compliance with spectacle wear in children kusing progressive addition lenses (PALs). Ninety-two children, participating in a randomized, doublemasked, crossover trial to determine whether PALs reduce myopia progression (mean+/-SD age: 11.0+/-1.6 years; refractive errors: 3.11+/-1.34 D), wore PALs (1.50 D near addition) or single vision lenses (SVLs) for 18 months, alternately. A questionnaire survey was performed 6 and 12 months after the beginning of the use of the lenses (6-month survey), and the results were compared between PAL- and SVL-wearing periods. In the PAL-wearing period, the children reported difficulty in adapting to newly provided spectacles (36%), disturbances in distance vision (22%), vertigo in the lateral gaze (11%), and difficulty in ascending and descending stairs (9%). However, the frequency of these symptoms was not significantly different from that reported in the SVL-wearing period. There was no difference in compliance with spectacle wear between the PAL- and SVL-wearing periods, and 98% of the children wearing PALs reported excellent compliance. The results of this study indicate that, compared with SVLs, the PALs provide a similar level of comfort and compliance with spectacle wear for myopic children.

Keywords questionnaire survey myopic children progressive addition lenses double-masked study
Amo Type Original Article
Publication Title Acta Medica Okayama
Published Date 2008-04
Volume volume62
Issue issue2
Publisher Okayama University Medical School
Start Page 109
End Page 117
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
Content Type Journal Article
language English
File Version publisher
Refereed True
PubMed ID 18464887
Web of Science KeyUT 000255297600007
JaLCDOI 10.18926/AMO/30754
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Author Matsuo, Toshihiko| Narita, Akiko| Senda, Masuo| Hasebe, Satoshi| Ohtsuki, Hiroshi|
Abstract

The purposes of this study were to examine whether body sway is altered immediately after strabismus surgery in children and to find preoperative clinical factors associated with body sway. In a prospective study, body sway was measured on 1-3 days before surgery and on the third day after surgery; for the measurements, computerized static stabilometry was carried out on 28 consecutive patients with strabismus (age range: 3 to 12 years old; mean: 7.4) who underwent strabismus surgery under general anesthesia. The linear length of the sway path (cm), the linear length of the sway path in a particular unit of time (cm/second), and the area of the sway path (cm2), indicative of the extent of body sway, all increased significantly among a total of 28 patients in both conditions of the patient's eyes open and closed, as well as among those in a subgroup of 16 patients with exotropia, after they had undergone strabismus surgery (p < 0.05, Wilcoxon signed ranks test). The center of pressure along the Y axis of orientation from the toe to the heel was found to deviate significantly toward the heel postoperatively, as compared with the preoperative center in the subgroup of 16 patients with exotropia (p < 0.05). Before surgery, 15 patients with no stereoacuity exhibited a greater amount of body sway when their eyes were open than did 13 patients with measurable stereoacuity (p < 0.05, Mann-Whitney U-test). In the subgroup of 16 patients with exotropia when their eyes open, 3 patients with abnormal head posture exhibited more extensive body sway than did 13 patients without abnormal head posture (p < 0.05). Body sway was found to significantly increase immediately after strabismus surgery in children with strabismus. Stereoacuity and abnormal head posture are 2 clinical factors associated with preoperative postural instability.

Keywords body sway strabismus surgery exotropia estropia stabilometry
Amo Type Article
Publication Title Acta Medica Okayama
Published Date 2006-02
Volume volume60
Issue issue1
Publisher Okayama University Medical School
Start Page 13
End Page 24
ISSN 0386-300X
NCID AA00508441
Content Type Journal Article
language English
File Version publisher
Refereed True
PubMed ID 16508685
Web of Science KeyUT 000235538900002
JaLCDOI 10.18926/14136
FullText URL Mem_Fac_Eng_39_1_16.pdf
Author Uchida, Tetsuya| Ishimaru, Sanae| Shimamura, Kaoru| Uji, Akihito| Matsuo, Toshihiko| Ohtsuki, Hiroshi|
Abstract PE film was treated with fuming nitric acid at 80℃ for 20 min, resulting in introduction of COOH moieties on the film surface. The COOH’s were reacted with ethylenediamine, whose amino groups were used for linking with (2-[4-(dibutylamino)phenyl]ethenyl)-3-carboxy-methylbenzo-thiazolium, photoelectric dye (NK-5962), which absorbs visible light and converts the photon energy to electric potentials. The dye molecules were immobilized on the PE film surface and they were able to stimulate chick retinal tissues on incidence of visible light. These facts hopefully lead to development of an artificial retinal prosthesis.
Publication Title Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University
Published Date 2005-01
Volume volume39
Issue issue1
Start Page 16
End Page 20
ISSN 0475-0071
language English
File Version publisher
NAID 120002308066
Author 大月 洋|
Published Date 1979-06-30
Publication Title
Content Type Thesis or Dissertation