Ocular age pigment "A2-E": An unprecedented pyridinium bisretinoid

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1559-1560

  Sakai, Naomi ^a   Decatur, John ^a   Nakanishi, Koji ^a   Eldred, Graig E ^b,c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c c/o Debra Schepker   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN; RETINOID;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; EYE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029985705     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja953480g     Document Type: Article

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