Association between high tear epidermal growth factor levels and corneal subepithelial fibrosis in dry eye conditions

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 844-849

  Rao, Kavita ^a   Farley, William J ^a   Pflugfelder, Stephen C ^a  

^a CULLEN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EYE PROTEIN; TEAR PROTEINS;

ADULT; AQUEOUS TEAR DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEAL SUBEPITHELIAL FIBROSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRY EYE; EYE DISEASE; EYE IRRITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LACRIMAL FLUID; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLAND DISEASE; NEUROTROPHIC KERATOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHIRMER TEST; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; EYELID DISEASE; FIBROSIS; FLUOROPHOTOMETRY; IMMUNOASSAY; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; METABOLISM; METAPLASIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE PROTEINS; EYELID DISEASES; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FLUOROPHOTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLANDS; METAPLASIA; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEARS;

EID: 77449084631     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3875     Document Type: Article

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