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Lacritin Salvages Human Corneal Epithelial Cells from Lipopolysaccharide Induced Cell Death

Innate immunity of the corneal epithelium is conferred by proteinaceous secretions from the epithelium and associated lacrimal and meibomian glands. Lacritin, an eye-specific protein with anti-microbial, cytoprotective and wound-healing properties, predominantly secreted by lacrimal glands, is absen...

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Autores principales: Vantaku, Venkat Rao, Gupta, Geetika, Rapalli, Krishna Chaitanya, Karnati, Roy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4680935/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26670139
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep18362