Historical brief on composition of human meibum lipids

Ocular Surface

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 145-153

  Wojtowicz, Jadwiga C ^a   Butovich, Igor A ^a   McCulley, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Human tear film; Lipids; Meibomian glands; Meibum; Nonpolar lipids; Polar lipids

Indexed keywords

DIACYLGLYCEROL; ESTER DERIVATIVE; FATTY ACID; LIPID; MINOCYCLINE; PHOSPHOLIPID; STEROL; STEROL ESTER; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WAX;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BLEPHARITIS; EYELID DISEASE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID COMPOSITION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; MEIBOMIANITIS; METABOLIC REGULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEAR FILM; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY, ANALYTIC; EYE DISEASES; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MEIBOMIAN GLANDS; TEARS;

EID: 70349658842     PISSN: 15420124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1542-0124(12)70309-9     Document Type: Article

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