Stimuli were constructed using Matlab R14 (The Mathworks Inc., Natick, Massachusetts), and consisted of a 140×140 pixels array of random noise, with a circle with a diameter of 74 pixels present in the centre, with slightly elevated contrast.
(iii) Adaptation to 70%-contrast flicker significantly elevated contrast discrimination thresholds at moderate contrast (10%) and significantly lowered discrimination thresholds at high contrast (70%) in migraineurs.
Initially, it seemed that two patients would be incorrectly diagnosed in both eyes which had markedly elevated contrast thresholds; however within the next 12 months they each developed appreciable visual field loss in their eyes (Table 1).
While there was a reasonable correspondence in 50% of our 18 glaucoma patients, in the other half of the patients, there was a marked mismatch so that some patients had normal contrast thresholds in quadrants showing high visual field loss while others had elevated contrast thresholds in seemingly normal parts of the visual field.
"I think that this elevates the contrast between the values of each of the parties and the inclusiveness of each of the parties," Baldwin said.
In our patient, serum levels of gastrin and somatostatin were slightly elevated in contrast to the other reports of PEComa, but the cause of elevating these hormones is not determined in other blood tests and imaging studies.
The rims along these voids were not elevated, in contrast to commonly observed void growth mechanisms.
109, elevating the contrast between tranquil passages and vehement ones.
The drug suppressed the amplitude of the overshoot more strongly in cones in which [Ca2+]i baseline was already elevated; in contrast, Ca2+ overshoots in most (71%) of the cones that exhibited no change in baseline response to D-cis diltiazem, were also insensitive to the drug (Table 1).
The expression of Oct4, Sox2, and Nanog that can contribute to the experimental induction of pluripotency in primary fibroblasts was also elevated, in contrast to Klf4 and C-myc that were downregulated.
The bar-tailed godwit, by contrast, elevates its metabolic rate between 8 and 10 times.
