Higuchi, Akihiro
Inoue, Hiroyoshi
Kaneko, Yoshio
Oonishi, Erina
Tsubota, Kazuo
Article History
Received: 15 July 2016
Accepted: 20 October 2016
First Online: 11 November 2016
Competing interests
: Higuchi A., Inoue H., and Tsubota K. applied patent on Se-lactoferrin for treatment of dry eye. This patent was applied by Keio University and KowaCompany, Ltd., and the right granted by the patent will belong to both. Kaneko Y. was employee of Kowa Company, Ltd. This work was supported inpart by a grant from Kowa Company, Ltd. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.