Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2021 Jul 5;14:2955–2962. doi: 10.2147/JIR.S310116

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2021 Zhang et al.

This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).

PMC Copyright notice

Increased level of N-GSDMD in tears from dry eye patients. Tears from dry eye patients (n=15, 30 eyes) or normal controls (n=15, 30 eyes) were collected with Schirmer strips, and randomly divided into three groups (each group contained five patients’ strips and five controls’ strips). The attached tear proteins on the strips were extracted, and then subjected to western blotting. (A) Western blotting analysis of full-length GSDMD (FL-GSDMD) and its cleaved N-terminus (N-GSDMD) from three groups (Ns: normal controls; Ps: dry eye patients). Quantification of gel bands presented in (B and C). Values are shown as mean±SD. *P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001.