Effect of hydrophilic polymers on the wettability, static and dynamic, of solid substrate covered by confluent monolayer of air-damaged SIRC cells

Biotechnology and Biotechnological Equipment

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 390-394

  Eftimov, Petar ^a   Stefanova, Nadezhda ^a   Lalchev, Zdravko ^a   Georgiev, Georgi As ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Contact angle measurement; Dry eye syndrome; Hydrophilic polymers

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CONTACT ANGLE; CYTOLOGY; HYDROPHILICITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONOLAYERS; WETTING;

ADVANCING AND RECEDING CONTACT ANGLES; CONCENTRATION RANGES; DRY EYE; EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; HYDROPHILIC POLYMERS; HYDROXYETHYL CELLULOSES (HEC); HYDROXYPROPYL METHYLCELLULOSE; STATIC CONTACT ANGLE;

POLYMERS;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 84925753322     PISSN: 13102818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13102818.2014.997541     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Lemp MA, Baudouin C, Baum J, Dogru M, Foulks GN, Kinoshita S, Laibson P, McCulley J, Murube J, Pflugfelder SC, Rolando M, Toda I. The definition and classification of dry eye disease: report of the Definition and Classification Subcommittee of the International Dry Eye Workshop (2007). Ocul Surface. 2007;5(2):75-92.
2. Uchino M, Yokoi N, Uchino Y, Dogru M, Kawashima M, Komuro A, Sonomura Y, Kato H, Kinoshita S, Schaumberg DA, Tsubota K. Prevalence of dry eye disease and its risk factors in visual display terminal users: the Osaka study. Am J Ophthalmol. 2013;156:759-766.
3. Uchino M, Uchino Y, Dogru M, Kawashima M, Yokoi N, Komuro A, Sonomura Y, Kato H, Kinoshita S, Schaumberg DA, Tsubota K. Dry eye disease and work productivity loss in visual display users: the Osaka study. Am J Ophthalmol. 2014;157:294-300.
4. Urtti A. Challenges and obstacles of ocular pharmacokinetics and drug delivery. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2006;58 (11):1131-1135.
5. Wei XE, Markoulli M, Zhao Z, Willcox MDP. Tear film break-up time in rabbits. Clin Exp Optom. 2013;96:70-75.
6. Tsubota K, Nakamori K. Effects of ocular surface area and blink rate on tear dynamics. Arch Ophthalmol. 1995;113:155-158.
7. Moss SE, Klein R, Klein BE. Prevalence of and risk factors for dry eye syndrome. Arch Ophthalmol. 2000;118: 1264-1268.
8. Dimitrov AS, Kralchevsky PA, Nikolov AD, Noshi H, Matsumoto M. Contact angle measurements with sessile drops and bubbles. J Colloid Interface Sci. 1991;145:279-282.
9. Drelich J, Miller JD, Good RJ. The effect of drop (bubble) size on advancing and receding contact angles for heterogeneous and rough solid surfaces as observed with sessiledrop and captive-bubble techniques. J Colloid Interface Sci. 1996;179:37-50.
10. Niederkorn JY, Meyer DR, Ubelaker JE, Martin JH. Ultrastructural and immunohistological characterization of the SIRC corneal cell line. In Vitr Cell Dev Biol. 1990;26: 923-930.