Focus on Molecules: Lacritin

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 457-458

  Ma, Peisong ^a   Wang, Ningning ^a   McKown, Robert L ^b   Raab, Ronald W ^b   Laurie, Gordon W ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cornea; dry eye; lacrimal; LACRT; meibomian

Indexed keywords

LACRITIN; TEAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLEPHARITIS; DRY EYE; HUMAN; LACRIMAL GLAND; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEOMICS; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 39749176364     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2007.01.025     Document Type: Short Survey

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