title: Mucus in the healthy and diseased eye.
abstract: Mucous glycoproteins play an important role in maintaining the normal surface of the eye. Changes in the physical properties and chemical composition occur in disease with increased viscosity and a shift in the type of acid glycoprotein towards a predominance of sulphomucin causing some of the distinctive clinical features seen in dry eyes, superior limbic keratitis (SLK), vernal catarrh, and neuroparalytic keratitis.
mesh_terms: D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005088:Exocrine Glands / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007634:Keratitis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009093:Mucus / Q000502:physiology*; D009799:Ocular Physiological Phenomena
chemical_list: D006023:Glycoproteins