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ArticleGraefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie2019

Alteration of lens and retina textures from mice embryos with folic acid deficiency: image processing analysis.

Ouafa Sijilmassi, José Manuel López-Alonso, María Del Carmen Barrio Asensio, Aurora Del Río Sevilla

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Article in Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ouafa SijilmassiFaculty of Optics and Optometry, Anatomy and Human Embryology Department, Universidad Complutense De Madrid, Avda. Arcos de Jalón, 118, 28037, Madrid, Spain. o.sijilmassi@ucm.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0513-0229
José Manuel López-AlonsoFaculty of Optics and Optometry, Optics Department, Universidad Complutense De Madrid, Avda. Arcos de Jalón, 118, 28037, Madrid, Spain.
María Del Carmen Barrio AsensioFaculty of Optics and Optometry, Anatomy and Human Embryology Department, Universidad Complutense De Madrid, Avda. Arcos de Jalón, 118, 28037, Madrid, Spain.
Aurora Del Río SevillaFaculty of Optics and Optometry, Anatomy and Human Embryology Department, Universidad Complutense De Madrid, Avda. Arcos de Jalón, 118, 28037, Madrid, Spain.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid · ES

Funding

pre-doctoral fellowship awarded by Complutense University of Madrid and Santander bank CT27/16 - CT28/16Spanish Ministry of Economy and competitiveness TEC2013-40442Spanish Ministry of Health PI06/0184 and PS09/01762
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeFolic acid (FA) is an essential vitamin for embryonic development. It plays particularly a critical role in RNA, DNA and protein synthesis. On the other hand, the collagen IV and laminin-1 are important proteins during embryonic development. This study was done to find if FA deficiency at a short and a long term in mothers could alter the tissue texture of retina and lens of the progeny.

methodsCollagen IV and laminin-1 were localized by immunohistochemistry in the lens and retina of the FA-deficient embryos. To carry out the image processing, texture segmentation was performed through canny edge detection and Fourier transform (FT). We defined a parameter, the grain size, to describe the texture of the lens and retina. A bootstrap method to estimate the distribution and confidence intervals of the mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis of the grain size has been developed.

resultsAnalysis through image processing using Matlab showed changes in the grain size between control- and FA-deficient groups in both studied molecules. Measures of texture based on FT exhibited changes in the directionality and arrangements of type IV collagen and laminin-1.

conclusionsChanges introduced by FA deficiency were visible in the short term (2 weeks) and evident in the long term (8 weeks) in both grain size and orientation of fibre structures in the tissues analysed (lens and retina). This is the first work devoted to study the effect of FA deficit in the texture of eye tissues using image processing techniques.

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Pregnancy, AnimalAnimalsCollagen Type IVDisease Models, AnimalFemaleFolic Acid DeficiencyImage Processing, Computer-AssistedImmunohistochemistryLamininMiceMice, Inbred C57BLPregnancyRetinaCollagen Type IVLamininlaminin 1Folic acid deficiencyLaminin-1LensMatlab texture analysisRetinaType IV collagen

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PMID30392021
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