Alteration of tear mucin 5AC in office workers using visual display terminals: The Osaka study

JAMA Ophthalmology

Volumn 132, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 985-992

  Uchino, Yuichi ^a   Uchino, Miki ^a,b   Yokoi, Norihiko ^c   Dogru, Murat ^a   Kawashima, Motoko ^a   Okada, Naoko ^a   Inaba, Takaaki ^a,d   Tamaki, Shusaku ^a,d   Komuro, Aoi ^c   Sonomura, Yukiko ^c   Kato, Hiroaki ^c   Argüeso, Pablo ^e   Kinoshita, Shigeru ^c   Tsubota, Kazuo ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ryogoku Eye Clinic   (Japan)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d SANTEN PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^e SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MUCIN 5AC; TEAR PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRY EYE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OFFICE WORKER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIRMER TEST; TEAR FLOW; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT; WORKING TIME;

ADULT; COMPUTER TERMINALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCIN 5AC; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; TEARS;

EID: 84907318966     PISSN: 21686165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2014.1008     Document Type: Article

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