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TL;DR: Overall, sex, gender and hormones play a major role in the regulation of ocular surface and adnexal tissues, and in the difference in DED prevalence between women and men.

TL;DR: Tear osmolarity showed a good performance in dry eye diagnosis, higher than the other tests considered, mainly in severe dry eye, and should be interpreted as an indicator of DED evolutionary process to severity.

TL;DR: Nucleofection is an efficient nonviral transfection technique for human bone marrow– derived mesenchymal stem cells, which then may be used as cellular vehicles for the delivery of biological agents.

TL;DR: Analysis of tear protein variations in patients suffering from dry eye symptoms in the presence of tear film instability but without epithelial defects shows that tear protein changes anticipate the onset of more extensive clinical signs in early stage dry eye disease.

TL;DR: Ocular surface cytology and the analysis of tear film changes provide significant information in those patients where no other clinical signs are evident and DES is significantly associated with ocular surface inflammation, as detected by cytological methods.