Surface-chemical pathways of the tear film breakup: Does corneal mucus have a role?

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 438, Issue , 1998, Pages 361-370

  Sharma, Ashutosh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; GLYCOSYLATION; HYDROGEN BOND; MUCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RABBIT; SQUAMOUS CELL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEAR FILM; THICKNESS;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUCUS; RABBITS; SURFACE TENSION; TEARS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0031815701     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5359-5_51     Document Type: Article

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