The primary aim of this article was to investigate differences in the metabolomic profile of tear fluid obtained from pre-operative cataract patients, with or without dry eye disease. The objective wa
Purpose: To examine whether dry eye severity is a risk factor for pterygium activity and whether vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is crucial in the cross talk between pterygium and dry eye. M
miRNAs can regulate inflammatory pathways. The purpose of this work was to determine if inflammatory-related tear film miRNAs are associated with extracellular vesicles (EVs) in human non-Sjögren’s Sy
BackgroundDry eye is often the first presenting manifestation of primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS). Because of the high prevalence of dry eye disease in normal population, ophthalmologists urgently nee
Tears are a biological fluid that has diagnostic potential for ocular diseases. Extracellular vesicles (EVs), wildly detected in various biofluids including tears, are nanoparticles released by living
