Volume of the human and rabbit meibomian gland system

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 438, Issue , 1998, Pages 339-343

  Greiner, Jack V ^a   Glonek, Thomas ^b   Korb, Donald R ^c   Whalen, Amy C ^c   Hebert, Eric ^c   Hearn, Stacey L ^a   Esway, Jan E ^c   Leahy, Charles D ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BLINKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETRY; LIPID BILAYER; LOWER EYELID; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TEAR FILM; THICKNESS;

ANIMALIA; MEIBOMIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0031817680     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5359-5_48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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