Fluorophotometric measurement of the buffering action of human tears in vivo

Current Eye Research

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1005-1009

  Yamada, Masakazu ^a   Kawai, Masataka ^a   Mochizuki, Hiroshi ^a   Hata, Yuka ^a   Mashima, Yukihiko ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bis carboxyethyl carboxyfluorescein (BCECF); Fluorophotometry; pH; Tear

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; CARBOXYFLUORESCEIN; OXYBUPROCAINE;

ADULT; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROPHOTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LACRIMAL FLUID; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; BUFFERS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEINS; FLUORESCENT DYES; FLUOROPHOTOMETRY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; PHOSPHATES; PROCAINE; TEARS;

EID: 0031697648     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.17.10.1005.5239     Document Type: Article

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