Ocular mucin visualization by confocal laser scanning microscopy

Cornea

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 395-401

  Peral, Assumpta ^a   Pintor, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Goblet cell; Impression cytology; Laser scanning microscopy; Mucin secretion; Ocular surface

Indexed keywords

MUCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SPREADING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GOBLET CELL; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMPRESSION CYTOLOGY; LASER MICROSCOPY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GOBLET CELLS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LACRIMAL APPARATUS DISEASES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MUCINS;

EID: 42549101271     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31816092dd     Document Type: Article

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