Clinical considerations in proinflammatory cytokine profiling of tears from patients with dry eye by means of antibody microarrays

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 9610-

  Tong, Louis ^a,b,c   Lee, Sze Yee ^c   Petznick, Andrea ^c  

^a SINGAPORE NATIONAL EYE CENTRE   (Singapore)

^b Singapore Graduate Medical School   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; LIPID; TEAR PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; EYE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA;

DRY EYE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LACRIMAL FLUID; LETTER; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; SCHIRMER TEST; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; NOTE;

DRY EYE SYNDROMES; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; TEARS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84863799868     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8814     Document Type: Letter

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