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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1993
Darlene A Dartt, Newton, MA (US);
Timothy L Kessler, Boston, MA (US);
The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of treating patients suffering from aberrant conjunctival goblet cell mucous secretion associated with a disorder of or injury to the eye is disclosed. The method, which is based on the discovery that conjunctival goblet cell mucous secretion is under the control of the autonomic nervous system, includes administering to an affected eye of a patient a neural system stimulus or inhibitor for sensory, parasympathetic or sympathetic nervous system function. Also disclosed are a therapeutic composition and an article of manufacture including the therapeutic composition useful for carrying out the method of the invention.