Fluorophotometric assessment of rabbit corneal epithelial barrier function after rigid contact lens wear

Cornea

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-91

  Ichijima, Hideji ^a   Yokoi, Norihiko ^b   Nishizawa, Aoi ^a   Kinoshita, Shigeru ^b  

^a MENICON CO LTD   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barrier function; Contact lens; Corneal epithelium; Fluorophotometry; Oxygen transmissibility

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN; OXYGEN; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA INJURY; DESQUAMATION; FLUOROPHOTOMETRY; HARD CONTACT LENS; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SLIT LAMP;

EID: 0032921817     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-199901000-00015     Document Type: Article

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