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A surgical device for localized delivery of beta radiation in surgical procedures, particularly ophthalmic procedures. Preferred surgical devices include a cannula with a beta radiotherapy emitting material at the distal end of the cannula. The surgical device is particularly suitable for use in the treatment of treat Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD).

The present invention relates to a biopolymer covering for a tissue surface including, for example, a dressing, a bandage, a drape such as a bandage contact lens, a composition or covering to protect tissue, a covering to prevent adhesions, to exclude bacteria, to inhibit bacterial activity, or to promote healing or growth of tissue. An example of such a composition is an amniotic membrane covering for an ocular surface. Use of a covering for a tissue surface according to the invention eliminates the need for suturing. The invention also includes devices facilitating the fastening of a membrane to a support, culture inserts, compositions, methods, and kits for making and using coverings for a tissue surface and culture inserts. Compositions according to the invention may include cells grown on a membrane or attached to a membrane, and such compositions may be used as scaffolds for tissue engineering or tissue grafts. A method of preparing and using an amniotic membrane covering for a tissue surface as a controlled release drug delivery vehicle is also disclosed.

A device and method are provided for treating the visual system of a human including the retina, visual cortex and / or other neuro-cellular structures. The method includes the steps of locating and defining a blind zone of deteriorated vision within the human's visual system, defining a treatment area which is located predominantly within the blind zone, and treating the human's visual system by presenting visual stimuli to the human's visual system. The majority of the visual stimuli are presented to at least a portion of the blind zone.

A thin-film, diaphragm based device is disclosed which can be used to perform an array of sensing and actuating operations where a very thin profile is desired, such as in millimeter, micrometer, or nanometer tight spaces.

The present disclosure provides neuromodulators, nucleic acid encoding thereof, and compositions thereof for endowing visual processing abilities to neuronal cells. The present disclosure further provides a method of restoring light sensitivity to degenerate retinas.

The invention discloses a seafood soup stock comprising materials of, by weight: 1 to 3 particles of peeled shrimps, 1 to 3g of carrot, 2 to 4g of onion, 2 to 4g of crab meat stick, 1 to 3g of squid, 1.5g of parsley, 1.1g of common salt, 0.2g of a shrimp flavoring, 0.5g of chicken essence, 4g of eggs, 0.05g of pepper, 0.7g of maize starch, 0.8g of a seafood extract, 0.2g of a dried scallop extract, 0.2g of ginger, 0.16g of hydrolyzed vegetable protein, 0.5g of glucose, 0.9g of maltodextrin, and 0.03g of perilla oil. The seafood soup stock provided by the invention is advantaged in balanced nutrition, good color, good flavor, good taste, and food mouthfeel. The soup stock contains various nutrients, and provides positive effects and auxiliary therapeutic effects for human healthy. The alpha-linolenic acid contained in the soup stock is an unsaturated fatty acid assists in reducing blood fat, reducing blood pressure anticoagulation / thrombolysis, improving cardiovascular and cerebrovascular performances, reducing total cholesterol concentration, preventing cardiovascular diseases, inhibiting myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction, and preventing and inhibiting the forming of tumors. The soup stock is rich in trace elements such as calcium, phosphorous, iron, and magnesium. Therefore, the soup provides good heart protecting, hypoglycemic and cancer preventing effects. Also, the soup stock is beneficial for the strength and the hematogenesis functions of skeletons.

The present inventions relates to the use of an isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence coding for a hyperpolarizing light-gated ion channel or pump gene from an archeon or for a light-active fragment of said gene, or the nucleotide sequence complementary to said nucleotide sequence, for treating or ameliorating blindness. The light-gated ion channel or pump gene can be a halorhodopsin gene.

A preparation method for selenium-rich health yellow wine adopts the technological process as follows: selenium-rich rice - sieving - washing - stewing - cooling - proportioning - charging into a cylinder - fermenting - press-filtering - sterilizing -end product; the components for proportioning are in mass percent as follows: 5%-8% of wine powder, 8%-10% of selenium-rich yeast, and 87%-83% of rice; moreover, the selenium-rich yeast is obtained by utilizing the microorganism strain screening technology through the following steps: firstly a yeast colony capable of utilizing inorganic selenium and converting inorganic selenium into organic selenium is selected nearby a selenium deposit; and then, the yeast colony is separated and enrichment cultured to be pure yeast; and finally the pure yeast is acclimated to be selenium-rich yeast. The selenium-rich health yellow wine prepared through the method disclosed by the invention has the functions of strengthening the body immunologic function, protecting the blood vessels of the heart and the brain, preventing the cancer, protecting the liver, protecting the eyesight, as well as resisting oxidation and delaying senium.

An apparatus for in vivo electroporating a plasmid into a retina of any eye includes a first electrode with a first polarity of voltage placed in contact with a cornea of the eye, a second electrode with an opposite second voltage at least in part behind the retina, and a pulsed voltage source for providing a pulsed DC voltage with an optimized field strength amplitude, frequency, number of pulses, group repetition rate and duration of pulse and group repetition, which are optimized for transfection of the channelrhodospsin-2 (ChR2) gene into the retinal ganglion cells. An in vivo method for treating retinal ganglion cells in an eye without use of viral transfection includes the steps of nonviral in vivo delivering a channelrhodospsin-2 (ChR2) gene to target the specific (retinal ganglion) cells of a retina by intravitreous injection of plasmid DNA, electroporating the plasmid into the retina and use of image intensification device for stimulating the retinal ganglion cells with ambient lighting conditions.

At present, the myopic incidence among youngsters is increasingly serious; in the face of numerous oral medicaments for preventing and treating myopic eyes, eye drops, correction instruments, operations and the like, the effects of the most are not ideal, the myopic eyes are difficultly healed, the expense is high, the curative effect is not definite, and even the most are over the truth and are difficultly accepted by people. The invention provides a medicinal pillow for preventing and treating myopic eyes, which can be economically, safely and conveniently used. The preferable formula of the medicinal pillow is prepared from 11 parts of cassia seed, 6 parts of Chinese angelica, 6 parts of tall gastrodia tuber, 5 parts of gambir plant, 7 parts of silktree albizzia bark, 9 parts of grassleaf sweelflag rhizome, 7 parts of tuckahoe, 11 parts of seed of feather cockscomb, 9 parts of sharp-leaf galangal fruit, 8 parts of raw rehmannia, 35 parts of chrysanthemum, 12 parts of equisetum, 9 parts of medlar, 7 parts of many-flower solomonseal rhizome, 11 parts of buerger pipewort flower, 5 parts of root of red rooted salvia, 5 parts of mint and 10 parts of Chinese eaglewood. According to return visit statistics of over two clinical treatment courses of 60 cases, the effective rate is 98 percent and the healing rate is 86 percent for pseudomyopia; meanwhile, the medicinal pillow can improve intelligence and nourish the brain. The medicinal pillow also can greatly relieve the symptoms such as presbyopia of the old, asthenopia of the adults and the like and improve the body immunity.

The present invention relates to method of treating a patient with a condition involving increased vascular permeability or increased angiogenesis comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of PEDF, PEDF 44 AA peptide, a homolog of the PEDF 44 AA peptide, a homolog of the PEDF 44 AA peptide wherein amino acid residues glutamate the (101) amino acid position, isoleucine at the (103) amino acid position, leucine at the (112) and serine at the (115) amino acid position are unchanged, or an agent that activates the PEDF receptor. Conditions for treatment include, but are not limited to, sepsis acute respiratory distress syndrome, nephrotic syndrome, diabetic neuropathy, preproliferative diabetic retinopathy, cancer or proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

A vision correction device includes a mount and a correction part having a correction base, a first pad and a second pad, wherein the first pad and the second pad are disposed on the correction base, and the correction base is telescoped into the mount. A method for vision correction includes the following steps: (1) providing a vision correction device pressed on the eyes; (2) pressing the vision correction device on the eye continuously to get a clear vision; (3) keeping the clear vision for a predetermined time to activate a feedback reaction of brain to get used to a state of normal vision; and (4) removing the vision correction device from the eye, the eye restoring an original vision and the feedback reaction of brain adjusting the original vision back to the normal vision.

The invention discloses a traditional Chinese medicine for treating amblyopia eye diseases and relates to a preparation prepared from the traditional Chinese medicines as raw materials. The traditional Chinese medicine is prepared from semen cassiae, radix paeoniae alba, salvia miltiorrhiza, medlar, tuckahoe, dendrobe, kudzuvine root, tuber of dwarf lilyturf, tribulus terrestris, adenophora tetraphylla, yam, forsythia core, motherwort fruit, lophatherum gracile, antelope horn powder, glabrousleaf pittosporum seed and fructus psoraleae. The clinical use result of the traditional Chinese medicine shows that the prescription has the functions of enhancing the capability of supplying blood to caridiac muscle, promoting the blood circulation and improving the development process of eye parts of patients and promoting the repair of optic nerve and retina cells as well as the efficacies of nourishing the kidney, nourishing the liver and improving acuity of vision; the prescription can be used for treating amblyopia, hyperopia, yellow spot and other diseases caused by various reasons; and the traditional Chinese medicine has unique formula and curative effect, especially has remarkable effects for infants and juvenile patients and can ensure that the symptoms of the patients are eliminated and the visions of the patients are recovered.

The invention discloses a student health monitoring system based on big data. The system comprises a hand-foot-and-mouth disease detection module, an eyesight detection module and a sports bracelet detection module. The hand-foot-and-mouth disease detection module is used for obtaining a disease index value which is used for reflecting the risk that the detected person suffers from the hand-foot-and-mouth disease. The eyesight detection module is used for obtaining a pupil diameter value, siphon response time, pupil response time and pupil-corneal reflection vector coordinates, wherein the pupil diameter value is used for reflecting the pupil diameter of the detected person under the irradiation of natural light; the siphon response time is used for reflecting the response time of capturing a bright pattern by the vision of the detected person; the pupil response time is used for reflecting the adaptive time of the pupil to the illumination brightness change; and the pupil-corneal reflection vector coordinates are used for reflecting the offset of the pupil center and the corneal reflection facula center. The information is input into a database to serve as big data information tobe analyzed, and the big data analysis step is used for analyzing the big data information to be analyzed to obtain analytical judgment information.

The invention discloses a life energy pulse physiotherapy instrument and a use method thereof, wherein an external power supply is connected with a power supply conversion module through an isolation transformer. The power supply conversion module supplies input voltage of the external power supply to an electroporation module, a chip processor, an electric conducting module, a low-frequency ultrasonic module and a high-frequency ultrasonic module. The electroporation module, the electric conducting module, an alarm module, a read-and-write device, a liquid crystal display device, the low-frequency ultrasonic module and the high-frequency ultrasonic module are connected with the chip processor. The signal output end of the low-frequency ultrasonic module is connected with a low-frequency probe. The signal output end of the high-frequency ultrasonic module is connected with a high-frequency probe. The electric conducting module is connected with the low-frequency probe and the high-frequency probe through a stabilizer. The low-frequency probe and the high-frequency probe contact with human body. The life energy pulse physiotherapy instrument has beneficial effects of realizing vision recovery, activating a sexual nerve, recovering sexual ability, activating cell activity, realizing energetic state and delicate skin of a man, and keeping youth of the man.

Described are new magnifying apparatus based on two dimensional arrays of micro magnifying modules (MMMs) positioned along a plane perpendicular to the axis of the magnifying apparatus. In addition, the structure may include a two dimensional array of micro beam multipliers (MBMs) to improve the quality of the magnified image. The micro beam multipliers are positioned along a plane parallel to the array of micro magnifying modules. The structure also may include a two dimensional array of ray angle adjusters (RAAs) to extend the view angle. The ray angle adjusters are positioned along a plane parallel to the array of micro magnifying modules. The array of micro magnifying modules, with or without the micro beam multipliers and / or ray angle adjusters, may be constructed as a thin plate with a thickness of a few millimeters, through which the object is viewed. An object at a distance appears in the magnifying apparatus as a magnified image and the magnifying apparatus can be used for viewing an object at a distance in a way similar to the use of a conventional magnifier for viewing an object in a short distance.

The invention relates to a novel biological artificial cornea capable of realizing cellularization through in-vivo induction as well as realizing quick transparency. The novel biological artificial cornea is prepared with a method in the steps as follows: 1, obtaining of a cornea raw material; 2, preparation of a cornea scaffold; 3, deep modification of the cornea scaffold; 4, deep inactivation of the cornea for removal of pyrogen; 5, irradiation sterilization of the cornea; 6, cultivation and implantation of corneal endothelial cells. Deep and light lamellar biological artificial corneas with different thicknesses and a full-thickness biological artificial cornea can be established. After being implanted, the novel biological artificial cornea can be quickly healed, becomes transparent quickly and keeps good refraction, the eyesight can be recovered and the eyeball is beautified. The obtained biological artificial cornea has good mechanical performance and biocompatibility, a full-thickness cornea graft is formed after endothelial cells are implanted on a full-thickness cornea stroma scaffold and can be rebuilt in vivo, perform in-vivo induction to promote growth of corneal limbal stem cells and growth of corneal epithelial cells and become transparent quickly on the basis, the treatment efficiency and effects are improved, and an application of lamellar keratoplasty and an application of penetrating keratoplasty are both considered.

The invention relates to a tomato and egg soup stock, which contains the following materials of: by weight, 11-13g of tomatoes, 4-6g of eggs, 1-2g of tomato sauce, 1.1g of salt, 0.8 part of chickens'extract, 1.2g of scallion, 0.25 part of hydrolyzed vegetable protein, 0.02 part of pepper, 0.85 part of starch maize, 0.9 part of maltodextrin, 0.16 part of ginger, 0.02 part of citric acid, 1.14g of glucose and 0.03 part of perilla herb oil. The tomato and egg soup stock has balanced nutrition, is good in color, flavor and taste and is tasty. The soup contains a plurality of nutrients, has an active effect and an auxiliary treatment effect for human health. Alpha-linolenic acid in the soup belongs to an unsaturated fatty acid, and is helpful for reducing blood fat, improving cardio cerebrovascular, reducing the concentration of total cholesterol, inhibiting myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction, and preventing and inhibiting the formation of tumor. The soup also contains abundant lycopene which has a unique antioxidant capacity and can prevent the process of canceration. The soup contains Ziyun which has functions of moisturizing dryness, nourishing heart, tranquilizing mind and prolonging life span. With the perfect combination of tomato and egg nutritive values, the soup stock provided by the invention has a high nutritive value.

The invention relates to a vegetable soup preparation, which comprises the following materials in part by weight: 4-5 parts of green vegetables, 2.5-3.5 parts of carrots, 2.5-3.5 parts of Chinese black mushrooms, 0.5-1.5 parts of chive, 5.5 parts of eggs, 0.3 part of vegetable extract, 0.4 part of chicken essence, 0.95 part of table salt, 0.25 part of hydrolyzed vegetable proteins, 0.1 part of mushroom extract, 0.1 part of ginger, 0.936 part of glucose, 0.936 part of corn starch, 0.9 part of maltodextrin, 0.02 part of pepper and 0.03 part of perilla herb oil. The vegetable soup preparation provided by the invention contains rich dietary fibers and minerals, not only can intestinal peristalsis be promoted, but also diseases can be prevented. Since the perilla herb oil is rich in alpha-linolenic acid, the vegetable soup preparation contributes to the reduction of blood fat, the reduction of blood pressure, anticoagulation, thrombolysis, the improvement of heart and brain blood vessels, the reduction of total cholesterol concentration, the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, the suppression of the occurrence myocardial infarction and cerebral infarction, the prevention and the suppression of the formation of tumors, the prevention of senile dementia, the restoration of eyesight and the improvement of learning memory. The vegetable soup preparation provided by the invention has the advantages that the nutrients are balanced, the color, fragrance and taste are good, and not only can the nutrients required by human bodies be provided, but also a certain curative effect is taken.

The invention provides methods for enhancing the delivery of therapeutic compounds to the eye of a subject by administering plasmin or derivatives thereof and the therapeutic compounds to the eye.

The invention relates to a visual training device, in particular to a head-mounted visual function training device. The head-mounted visual function training device comprises a shell with an inner cavity. An observation surface contacting with faces is arranged on the outer side of the shell, and is provided with two first through holes corresponding to eyes. The through holes are communicated with the inner side and the outer side of the observation surface. A rotatable imaging device is arranged in the inner cavity of the shell. A 'T'-shaped movement track is arranged in the inner cavity ofthe shell horizontally. The symmetric line of the 'T'-shaped movement track is opposite to the symmetric line of the first through holes. The imaging device can move along the 'T'-shaped movement track. Image reflecting mechanisms, used for reflecting images displayed by the imaging device into the first through holes, are arranged between the large end of the 'T'-shaped movement track and the first through holes. The head-mounted visual function training device has the advantages that visual distances can be well adjusted; the two eyes can be trained at the same time, time is short, and efficiency is high; the device is convenient and safe to wear and has high comfort level.