Endotracheal and tracheal aspirates yielded no ... The loss of ciliary mucosa, at first by necrosis and later by squamous metaplasia, is a reaction of epithelia to an extraordinary stimulus ...

Figure 2 provides a birds-eye view of the current and future trends in the management of severe OSD. Current management may not completely restore the functions and structure of the ocular surface ...

In control samples of normal gastric antral mucosa prepared in an identical manner, mucous producing cells showed uniform granules without mixed phenotype (not shown). Our observations suggest that ...