Cold-sensitive corneal afferents respond to a variety of ocular stimuli central to tear production: Implications for dry eye disease

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3969-3976

  Hirata, Harumitsu ^a,b   Meng, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL TEAR; ISOFLURANE; MENTHOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLD SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA VASCULARIZATION; DRY EYE; EVAPORATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LACRIMATION; MALE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY NERVE; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL STIMULATION; THERMORECEPTOR; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; COLD; CORNEA; DESICCATION; INNERVATION; LACRIMAL FLUID; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STIMULATION; TEMPERATURE SENSE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; CORNEA; DESICCATION; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; TEARS; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THERMORECEPTORS; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 77955884939     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4744     Document Type: Article

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