Light exposure and macular pigment optical density

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 306-309

  Wenzel, Adam J ^a   Fuld, Kenneth ^a   Stringham, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; OXIDATION; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA LUTEA;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADULT; BETA CAROTENE; HUMANS; LIGHT; LUTEIN; MALE; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENTS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 0037252977     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.01-1191     Document Type: Article

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