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Review
. 2011 Mar 30;52(4):1979-93.
doi: 10.1167/iovs.10-6997d. Print 2011 Mar.

The international workshop on meibomian gland dysfunction: report of the subcommittee on tear film lipids and lipid-protein interactions in health and disease

Kari B Green-Church  1 , Igor Butovich, Mark Willcox, Douglas Borchman, Friedrich Paulsen, Stefano Barabino, Ben J Glasgow
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The international workshop on meibomian gland dysfunction: report of the subcommittee on tear film lipids and lipid-protein interactions in health and disease

Kari B Green-Church et al. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. .
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
A proposed model of the precorneal tear film showing the relationship and interaction of lipid-binding proteins and the outer lipid layer.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Soft contact lens lipid deposits seen on slit lamp examination (photos courtesy of the Brien Holden Vision Institute).
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
The solvent-accessible surface of TL. Residues are colored according to the static quenching constants observed with C12SL. Reprinted from Gasymov OK, Abduragimov AR, Glasgow BJ. Intracavitary ligand distribution in tear lipocalin by site-directed tryptophan fluorescence. Biochemistry. 2009;48:7219–7228 with permission from the American Chemical Society.
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