Figure 3.
Tear proteome of hard and soft CL users. (a) Representative tear protein profiles of both types of CL wearers before (designated as A) and after (designated as B) CL renouncement compared to non-CL users (designated as CTRL) resolved in 1DE gel stained with colloidal blue. M: marker. (b) Venn diagram depicting overlaps of identified tear proteins in hard and soft CL users before and following lens renouncement compared to the control group. (c) Venn diagram showing overlaps of differentially expressed tear proteins in each CL subgroup before and after CL renouncement. (d) Heat map depicts the hierarchical clustering of the differentially expressed tear proteins in the hard and soft CL groups before (designated as A) and after (designated as B) CL renouncement compared to the CTRL.