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Figure 5

From: Dynamics of tear fluid desiccation on a glass surface: a contribution to tear quality assessment

Figure 5

Changes in the morphological features of tear microdesiccates produced under conditions of accelerated evaporation. One-microliter aliquots from a single sample of tear collected from a healthy subject were allowed to dry simultaneously either at ambient conditions (left), at reduced pressure (center) or at a higher temperature (right). Under both non-ambient conditions, the time of desiccation was reduced by half and the resulting microdesiccates lacked distinctive zones II and III, preserved the surrounding zone I and exhibited much smaller and more homogeneous groups of crystalloids than those observed in the distinct zones II and III of the control microdesiccate. Figures are representative of five independent experiments.

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