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Levels Of Human Tear Lacritin Isoforms In Healthy Adults, Brooke Justis
Levels Of Human Tear Lacritin Isoforms In Healthy Adults, Brooke Justis
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
Current diagnostics of dry eye disease are unable to identify the multiple complex causes of dry eye, thereby limiting the proper treatments of the disease. The tear glycoprotein lacritin has been reported to be decreased in dry eye patients, specifically those with Sjӧgren’s syndrome associated dry eye. Therefore, the use of lacritin in a diagnostic test for dry eye could improve the current diagnostics available. Western blot assays have revealed the presence of an active lacritin monomer as well as an inactive tissue transglutaminase cross-linked polymer in human tears. A third isoform of lacritin, the splice variant lacritin-c, has also …