Do estrogen and progesterone play a role in the dry eye of Sjögren's syndrome?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 966, Issue , 2002, Pages 223-225

  Suzuki, Tomo ^a,b   Schaumberg, Debra A ^a,b,c   Sullivan, Benjamin D ^a   Liu, Meng ^a,b   Richards, Stephen M ^a   Sullivan, Rose M ^a   Dana, M Reza ^a,b,c   Sullivan, David A ^a,b  

^a SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dry eye; Estrogen; Progesterone; Sex differences; Sj gren's syndrome

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; HORMONE RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

AGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY EYE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; MENOPAUSE; POSTMENOPAUSE; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SJOEGREN SYNDROME;

MEIBOMIA;

EID: 0036303221     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04218.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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