Tear film lipids

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 117, Issue , 2013, Pages 4-27

  Butovich, Igor A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Chromatography; Lipidomics; Lipids; Mass spectrometry; Meibomian gland secretions; Meibum

Indexed keywords

AMPHOPHILE; BEHENYL OLEATE; BEHENYL STEARATE; CERAMIDE; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL OLEATE; CHOLESTEROL STEARATE; FATTY ACID; GELATINASE A; HYDROXY FATTY ACID; LIPID; LIPIDOME; OLEIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOLIPID; SPHINGOMYELIN; STEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LACRIMAL FLUID; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPIDOMICS; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; MOLECULAR MODEL; PHASE PARTITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; REVIEW; TEAR FILM; THICKNESS;

CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIPIDOMICS; LIPIDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEIBOMIAN GLAND SECRETIONS; MEIBUM;

CHOLESTEROL ESTERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, REVERSE-PHASE; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPIDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEIBOMIAN GLANDS; TEARS; WAXES;

EID: 84888130514     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2013.05.010     Document Type: Review

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