Alteration of tear cytokine balance by eye closure: Analysis by multicytokine assay

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 747-749

  Uchino, Eisuke ^a   Sonoda, Shozo ^a   Nakao, Kumiko ^a   Sakamoto, Taiji ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cornea; ELISA; Inflammation

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMETRY; EYE INFLAMMATION; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACRIMAL FLUID; LACRIMAL FLUID LEVEL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BLINKING; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKINS; MALE; TEARS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33745280574     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0127-z     Document Type: Article

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