Cold thermoreceptors, unexpected players in tear production and ocular dryness sensations

Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Jun 1;52(6):3888-92. doi: 10.1167/iovs.09-5119.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Body Temperature / physiology
  • Cold Temperature*
  • Cornea / innervation
  • Dry Eye Syndromes / metabolism*
  • Eye Pain / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Nociceptors / metabolism
  • Tears / metabolism*
  • Thermoreceptors / physiology*
  • Trigeminal Ganglion