Tear film characteristics in French bulldogs vs. non-brachycephalic dogs
Joschka Spornberger, Petr Soukup, Andrea Meyer-Lindenberg, Ingrid Allgoewer · 2025
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Description
Joschka Spornberger, Petr Soukup, Andrea Meyer-Lindenberg, and Ingrid Allgoewer read the tear film of French bulldogs in a 2025 study. The breed's flat face strains its eyes, and a poor tear film can dry the eye's face to harm.
Sound dogs of the breed faced sound dogs of long- and mid-face kin in a full eye check. The flat-face pack made more tears by the strip test, and its tear pool stood near twice as tall. Yet its film's fat coat graded worse and its film broke in half the span. Salt in the tears ran the same both ways. The authors read the marks as a dry-eye flaw of kind, not of count: the film is there, but it thins and parts too fast.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Joschka Spornberger, Petr Soukup, Andrea Meyer-Lindenberg, Ingrid Allgoewer |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |