Background: Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune inflammatory disease that primarily affects the exocrine glands, leading to glandular dysfunction. The hallmark symptoms of SS are dry eyes and mouth, compromising quality life patients decreasing their capacity perform daily activities. Objective: This study aims evaluate efficacy herbal formula SS-1 for its potential therapeutic benefits wi...

purpose: to detect the prevalence of dry eye after vitrectomy and its influencing factors. methods: schirmer i, tear basic secretion test and tear breakup time was done preoperatively and 3 months postoperatively on consecutive patients undergoing vitrectomy in khatam hospital from 2005 to 2006. eyes with previous peritomies of more than 120◦ and symptoms of dry eye or tear tests compatible wit...

  Introduction: There is a limited number of case reports published in the past decade confirming the radio-iodine presence in the tear. These observations as well as reported cases of salivary and lacrimal gland dysfunction after radioiodine therapy stimulated investigators to clarify whether lacrimal gland function can be affected post-radioiodine therapy. Hence we ...

PURPOSE To characterize the outward chloride currents (Cl(OR)) in single acinar cells isolated from the rabbit superior lacrimal gland (RSLG) to investigate the hypothesis that Cl(OR) may have a role in regulating the volume of RSLG acini. METHODS Cl(OR) was characterized by using patch-clamp electrophysiology. Confocal microscopy was used to measure intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca(2...

Dry eye syndrome is a group of medical conditions that can be caused by many factors, as result which there an abnormality in moisturizing the surface tear film. One causes this disorder Sjögren’s syndrome, autoimmune disease body produces antibodies against its own proteins. The glands external secretion, mainly lacrimal and salivary are damaged inflammation. Associated with side effects, affe...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Decreased tear volume in patients with chronic hepatitis C has been reported in the literature. Lactoferrin is abundantly present in human tears, the main source of which is the acini of the lacrimal glands. In this study tear lactoferrin levels were measured to investigate the dry eye condition of patients with chronic hepatitis C. METHODS Lactoferrin in tears/fluid was measu...