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Artificial muscles prevent a loss of sight


eyeExperts from the Medical centre of the Californian university in USA have found a way of restoration of mobility of eyelids at patients with a facial paralysis.

At natural regular opening and closing of eyelids the forward part of an eyeball is cleared and in regular intervals moistened with tear. Disturbance of this process which is supervised by a craniocerebral nerve, threatens with a helcoma and a loss of sight. The nerve is often damaged at surgical excision of tumours, a stroke, traumas; disability blinks also can to be bound to rare congenital disease - Moebius's syndrome.

There are two ways to return to a century mobility. The first - transplantation of muscles - does not approach for aged patients and people with poor health: operation of at 6-10 o'clock here is required. Much more often per a blepharon simply sew a small gold load, and it is closed under a body weight. This way, however, has disadvantages: the person blinks more slowly usual, and not at all it turns out to hold the "operated" eye closed in a dream.
Authors have offered an original technique of treatment by means of a trizonal artificial muscle - strias of a working material, from both parties the covered carbon greasing. Such muscle extends at shok: external layers aspire to approach with each other, squeezing a soft material.

For check of action of system scientists have framed special "loop" from a muscular fascia and have arranged it round an eye of the dead person. "Loop" was attached to bones by small titanic screws and bridged to the artificial muscle working from the small-type battery; at reduction of a muscle the "loop" form changed, and the eyelid was closed.
Device work can be synchronised with blinking of a healthy eye, using the gauge brought by a mobile blepharon. When the person loses ability to close both eyes, researchers suggest to apply the electron stimulator setting a certain rhythm of blinking.

At the moment technology testing proceeds. The first patients, according to authors, can test an artificial muscle not later than in five years.