Evaluation of age-related changes in human palpebral conjunctiva and meibomian glands by in vivo confocal microscopy

Cornea

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1007-1012

  Wei, Anji ^a   Hong, Jiaxu ^a   Sun, Xinghuai ^a   Xu, Jianjiang ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

aging; anatomy; conjunctiva; imaging; physiology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CHILD; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVA EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM BASAL CELL; FEMALE; GOBLET CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; LANGERHANS CELL; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CELL COUNT; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVA; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GOBLET CELLS; HUMANS; LANGERHANS CELLS; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLANDS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 80051789906     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31820ca468     Document Type: Article

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