Measurement of corneal epithelial permeability to fluoresce in: A repeatability study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1830-1839

  McNamara, Nancy A ^a   Fusaro, Robert E ^a,b   Brand, Richard J ^a,b   Polse, Kenneth A ^a   Srinivas, S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corneal epithelial permeability; Epithelial barrier function; Fluorophotometry; Repeatability; Sample size

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FLUORESCENCE; FLUOROPHOTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADULT; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CORNEA; EPITHELIUM; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; FLUOROPHOTOMETRY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0030826643     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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