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Ocular inflammation encompasses a variety of disorders affecting the eye, including keratitis, uveitis, and CMV-induced retinitis. Many of these disorders are associated with the use of contact lens in human patients.
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Mertz, B.P. (2014). Models on Eye Inflammation. In: Hock, F. (eds) Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Pharmacological Assays. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27728-3_90-1
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