Treatment of dry eye by autologous serum application in Sjogren's syndrome

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 390-395

  Tsubota, Kazuo ^a,b   Goto, Eiki ^a,b   Fujita, Hiromi ^a   Ono, Masafumi ^a,c   Inoue, Hiroko ^a   Saito, Ichiro ^d   Shimmura, Shigeto ^a,b  

^a TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FLUORESCEIN; MUCIN; RETINOL; ROSE BENGAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONJUNCTIVA EPITHELIUM; DRY EYE; FEMALE; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LOW TEMPERATURE; MALE; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERUM; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; TOPICAL TREATMENT; VITAL STAIN;

EID: 0032950692     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.83.4.390     Document Type: Article

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