Microdesiccates produced from normal human tears display four distinctive morphological components
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Microdesiccates produced from normal human tears display four distinctive morphological components.
Desiccation of human tears on glass surfaces results in fern-like crystalloids. This phenomenon has been associated with tear normality (Tear Ferning Test, TFT) and is used as a diagnostic aid to evaluate patients with Dry-Eye disease. However, TFT is focused on the assessment of only a minor fraction of desiccated tear samples and considers only the relative abundance and density of fern-like ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biological Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0716-9760
DOI: 10.4067/s0716-97602013000300012