Table 1
Turnover rates of a topically applied (1 μl) 50 mg/ml 5-dodecanoylaminofluorescein (DAF) emulsion or 50 μg/ml fluorescein sodium solution observed in 12 subjects
| Subject no | Turnover rate (%/min) | |
| DAF | Fluorescein sodium | |
| 1 | 0.51 | 5.2 |
| 2 | 0.46 | 4.4 |
| 3 | 0.54 | 7.1 |
| 4 | 0.61 | 7.2 |
| 5 | 0.84 | 9.7 |
| 6 | 0.93 | 10.0 |
| 7 | 0.84 | 10.2 |
| 8 | 1.12 | 11.5 |
| 9 | 1.60 | 14.7 |
| 10 | 1.31 | 12.9 |
| 11 | 1.24 | 15.8 |
| 12 | 1.14 | 14.5 |
| Mean (SD) | 0.93 (0.36) | 10.3 (3.7) |
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The turnover rate of DAF was significantly lower than that of fluorescein sodium (p<0.05).
