Tear fluid influence on the ocular surface

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 438, Issue , 1998, Pages 611-617

  Pflugfelder, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS SICCA; LACRIMAL FLUID; LACRIMAL GLAND; LACRIMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SJOEGREN SYNDROME;

EID: 0031744759     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5359-5_86     Document Type: Conference Paper

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