What happens to tears inside the efferent lacrimal passage? An animal experimental study

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 238, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 496-499

  Paulsen, Friedrich ^a   Thale, Andreas ^a   Mentlein, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; IODINE; PROTEIN;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; GOBLET CELL; ISOTOPE LABELING; LACRIMAL DUCT; LACRIMAL FLUID; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEAR FLOW; TIME;

EID: 0033948910     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00007890     Document Type: Article

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