Comment on: A new look at lubrication of the ocular surface - Fluid mechanics behind the blinking eyelids

Ocular Surface

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 152-153

  Radke, C J ^a   Chauhan, Anuj ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; LIPID; MUCIN;

AQUEOUS HUMOR; BLINKING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FLUID FLOW; FRICTION; LACRIMAL FLUID; LETTER; LUBRICATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEAR FILM; VISCOSITY; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

BLINKING; HUMANS; TEARS;

EID: 56549113591     PISSN: 15420124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1542-0124(12)70173-8     Document Type: Letter

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