Psychological stress induces dysfunction in the lacrimal gland through the sympathetic nervous system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis.

Chronic psychosocial stress is increasingly recognized as a key risk factor for dry eye disease, potentially because of its disruption of the circadian transcriptome and lacrimal gland function, which impacts eye health. In this study, we test this h…

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