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Do sex steroids exert sex-specific and/or opposite effects on gene expression in lacrimal and meibomian glands?

2009; National Institutes of Health; Volume: 15; Linguagem: Inglês

David A. Sullivan, Roderick V. Jensen, Tomo Suzuki, Stephen M. Richards,

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We hypothesize that sex steroids induce sex-specific and/or opposite effects in the lacrimal and meibomian glands and that these actions may influence the prevalence of dry eye syndrome. The objective of this study was to begin to test this hypothesis.