The rationale for the study was anecdotal reports of the effects of breast milk used by mothers to treat blocked tear ducts, ...

Investigators recommend a dose of 0.2 mg/mL losartan 6 times per day for patients with a current corneal epithelial defect. Topical losartan for the treatment of scarring corneal fibrosis mediated by ...

OSN, a roundtable discusses the management of epithelial ingrowth after LASIK, neurotrophic keratitis and Demodex blepharitis with marginal keratitis.A few thoughts after decades of treating these ...

"What happens to the eye when you get UV exposure is that the epithelial layer loses its resilience. Some of it sloughs off," ...

yahoo.com Background/aims: To evaluate in vivo three-dimensional (3-D) confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) as a technique for visualising the corneal surface and epithelium. Methods: Ten human ...

RESULTS In normal corneas CD44 was predominantly expressed on the membranes of basal epithelial cells and on the keratocytes, as well as on the vascular endothelial cells of the corneal limbi, but was ...

The corneal and conjunctival epithelia and the tear film constitute the ocular surface. The conjunctival epithelium contains mucin-producing goblet cells and the mucosal immune defense system.

Dry eyes are associated with minute punctate epithelial erosions of the cornea, usually detected by fluorescein or Rose Bengal staining of the ocular surface. This is seen in post-LASIK patients ...

These OExo NPs exhibit a uniform average diameter of 130 nm and demonstrate consistent oxygen release capabilities. In vitro assays using human corneal epithelial cells-transformed (HCE-T) revealed ...