Evaluation and quantitation of intact wax esters of human meibum by gas-liquid chromatography-ion trap mass spectrometry

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3766-3781

  Butovich, Igor A ^a,b   Arciniega, Juan C ^a   Lu, Hua ^a   Molai, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTER DERIVATIVE; HEPTADECANOIC ACID; OLEIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID; PALMITOLEIC ACID; STEARIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WAX ESTER; ESTER; WAX;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; ELECTRON; ELUTION; FEMALE; GAS LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ION TRAP MASS SPECTROMETRY; IONIZATION; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; CHEMISTRY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; SECRETION;

ADULT; ESTERS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLANDS; WAXES;

EID: 84865838829     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-9333     Document Type: Article

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