Tear film lipid layer formation: Implications for contact lens wear

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 189-192

  Korb, Donald R ^a   Greiner, Jack V ^b   Glonek, Thomas ^c  

^a Harvard Medical School ^*  (United States)

^b SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

contact lens; lipids; phospholipids; tear film

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; LIPIDS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; STABILITY;

CONTACT LENS WEAR; OCULAR SURFACE; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; TEAR FILM;

CONTACT LENSES;

PHOSPHOLIPID;

CONTACT LENS; CORNEA; HUMAN; LIPID COMPOSITION; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEAR FILM;

CONTACT LENSES; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEARS;

EID: 0030111206     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-199603000-00011     Document Type: Review

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