The role of corneal afferent neurons in regulating tears under normal and dry eye conditions.

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Published in Exp Eye Res on August 28, 2013

Authors

Ian D Meng1, Masayuki Kurose

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, University of New England, 11 Hills Beach Rd, Biddeford, ME 04005, USA. Electronic address: imeng@une.edu.

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