Group IIA phospholipase A2 content of tears in patients with atopic blepharoconjunctivitis

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 242, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 986-989

  Peuravuori, Heikki ^a   Kari, Osmo ^b   Peltonen, Sirje ^b   Aho, Valtteri V ^a   Saari, Jukka M ^b   Collan, Yrjö ^a   Määttä, Marko ^b   Saari, K Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPASE A2;

ADULT; ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLUMNAR EPITHELIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; EOSINOPHIL; EPITHELIUM CELL; EYELID; FEMALE; FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LACRIMAL FLUID; LACRIMATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; PRICK TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEST; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLEPHARITIS; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ALLERGIC; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FEMALE; FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; TEARS;

EID: 10844247217     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-004-0941-8     Document Type: Article

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