Tear fluid biomarkers in ocular and systemic disease: Potential use for predictive, preventive and personalised medicine

EPMA Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Hagan, Suzanne ^a   Martin, Eilidh ^a   Enríquez de Salamanca, Amalia ^b,c  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^c BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Cancer; Diabetic retinopathy; Dry eye; Glaucoma; Metabolome; Neurological disorders; Predictive preventive personalised medicine (PPPM); Proteome; Tear fluid

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; ALPHA ENOLASE; ANNEXIN A11; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCYCLIN; CALGRANULIN A; CALGRANULIN B; CALVASCULIN; CLUSTERIN; CYSTATIN S; DEFENSIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1; LACTOFERRIN; LIPOCALIN 1; LIPOCORTIN 1; LYSOZYME; LYSOZYME PROLINE RICH PROTEIN 3; LYSOZYME PROLINE RICH PROTEIN 4; MDH2 PROTEIN; MUCIN 5AC; NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA ASSOCIATED PRP 4; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; OROSOMUCOID; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 ACTIVATING PROTEIN; PROLACTIN INDUCIBLE PROTEIN; S100A11 PROTEIN; SUBSTANCE P; TEAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ALLERGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ANIRIDIA; ATOPIC KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DRY EYE; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; EYE DISEASE; EYE TUMOR; GIANT PAPILLARY CONJUNCTIVITIS; GLAUCOMA; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOPATHY; LACRIMAL FLUID; METABOLOME; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEOPLASM; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIPHERAL ULCERATIVE KERATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TRACHOMA; VERNAL CONJUNCTIVITIS;

EID: 84978115970     PISSN: 18785077     EISSN: 18785085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13167-016-0065-3     Document Type: Review

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