Zinc uptake and storage: The role of fundus pigmentation

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 243, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1050-1055

  Kokkinou, Despina ^a   Kasper, Haino Uwe ^b   Schwarz, Tobias ^a   Bartz Schmidt, Karl Ulrich ^a   Schraermeyer, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Choroid; Pigmentation; Zinc storage; Zinc uptake

Indexed keywords

ZINC CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG UPTAKE; EYE COLOR; EYE FUNDUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCUBATION TIME; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID; CULTURE MEDIA; EYE COLOR; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ZINC;

EID: 27744504570     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-1197-7     Document Type: Article

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