Presence of eotaxin in tears of patients with atopic keratoconjunctivitis with severe corneal damage

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1220-1221

  Fukagawa, Kazumi ^a,b   Nakajima, Toshiharu ^c   Tsubota, Kazuo ^a   Shimmura, Shigeto ^a   Saito, Hirohisa ^b   Hirai, Koichi ^c  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; EOTAXIN;

ARTICLE; ATOPY; CHEMOTAXIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ULCER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EOSINOPHIL; HUMAN; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; LACRIMAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION;

EID: 0032816425     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-6749(99)70206-X     Document Type: Article

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