Effect of meibomian gland occlusion on tear film lipid layer thickness

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 438, Issue , 1998, Pages 345-348

  Greiner, Jack V ^a   Glonek, Thomas ^b   Korb, Donald R ^c   Hearn, Stacey L ^a   Whalen, Amy C ^c   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

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CAUTERIZATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY EYE; EVAPORATION; LIPID BILAYER; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSION; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; TEAR FILM; THICKNESS;

ANIMALIA; MEIBOMIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0031867901     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5359-5_49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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