Table 3
Evaluation of the relation between clinical assessment of PUK activity and gelatinase activity in tear secretions
| Tear sample | Clinical assessment | Acyltransferase activity (nmol/min per mg) |
Gelatinase B activity (visualised) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corneal status | Conjunctival inflammation | ||||||
| PUK | 1R | No thinning | + | 45 | + | ||
| 1L | Perforation | ++++ | 107 | +++ | |||
| PUK | 2R | Thinning | ++ | 80 | +/− | ||
| 2L | No thinning | + | 43 | +/− | |||
| PUK | 3R | Thinning | + | 45 | +/− | ||
| 3L | Thinning | + | 84 | + | |||
| PUK | 4R | Thinning | ++ | 128 | + | ||
| 4L | Thinning | + | 73 | +/− | |||
| PUK | 5R | Thinning | + | 23 | +/− | ||
| PUK | 6R | Perforation | ++++ | 112 | +++ | ||
| PUK | 7R | Thinning | ++ | 113 | ++ | ||
| 7L | Perforation | ++++ | 108 | +++ | |||
| Normal | 1R | Normal | − | 16 | − | ||
| 1L | Normal | − | 12 | − | |||
| Normal | 2R | Normal | − | 47 | − | ||
| 2L | Normal | − | 24 | − | |||
| Normal | 3R | Normal | − | 29 | − | ||
| 3L | Normal | − | 45 | − | |||
| Normal | 4R | Normal | − | 59 | − | ||
| 4L | Normal | − | 60 | − | |||
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R = right eye; L = left eye.
