The interfacial viscoelastic properties and structures of human and animal Meibomian lipids

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 598-604

  Leiske, Danielle L ^a   Raju, Shiwani R ^b   Ketelson, Howard A ^c   Millar, Thomas J ^b   Fuller, Gerald G ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ALCON RESEARCH LTD   (United States)

Author keywords

Brewster angle microscope; Interfacial rheology; Interfacial stress rheometer; Meibomian lipids; Tear film

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ARTICLE; BREWSTER ANGLE MICROSCOPY; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; HYSTERESIS; KOALA; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; MARSUPIAL; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SHEAR STRESS; TEAR FILM; VISCOELASTICITY; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELASTICITY; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MACROPODIDAE; MARSUPIALIA; MEIBOMIAN GLANDS; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; RABBITS; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 77951248666     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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