Vitamin E associated with the lipocalin fraction of human tears

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 506 A, Issue , 2002, Pages 567-572

  Glasgow, Ben J ^a   Abduragimov, Adil R ^a   Gassymov, Oktay K ^a   Yusifov, Taleh N ^a   Ruth, Edward C ^b   Faull, Kym F ^c  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CARRIER PROTEIN; LIPOCALIN;

BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LACRIMAL FLUID; LACRIMAL FLUID LEVEL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 0036932641     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0717-8_79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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