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Albumin adsorption to contact lens materials: A review

Abstract

During contact lens wear, tear film components such as lipids, mucins and proteins tend to deposit on and within the lens material and may cause discomfort, reduced vision and inflammatory reactions. The tear film protein that has attracted most interest when studying contact lens deposition is the small (14 kDa), positively charged protein lysozyme. Albumin, which is a much larger protein (66 kDa) with an overall net negative charge is also of …

Authors

Luensmann D; Jones L

Journal

Contact Lens and Anterior Eye, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 179–187

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

August 2008

DOI

10.1016/j.clae.2008.05.004

ISSN

1367-0484