Progress of inflammation mediated by T cell in dry eye disease pathogenesis

Abstract:

Dry eye disease is a common ocular surface disease in ophthalmology and its complex pathogenesis makes no animal model could perfectly mimic the characteristic of dry eye disease which is chronic, repeated and worse. Studies showed inflammation plays an important role in the development of dry eye disease and we gave an overview of Th1 cell and Th17 cell in the pathogenesis of dry eye disease in this review.