Impact of aging and age-related maculopathy on inactivation of the a-wave of the rod-mediated electroretinogram

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8-9, 2006, Pages 1422-1431

  Jackson, Gregory R ^a   McGwin Jr , Gerald ^a,b,c   Phillips, Janice M ^a   Klein, Ronald ^d   Owsley, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c Kentucky   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related maculopathy; Aging; Electroretinogram; Phototransduction; Rod photoreceptor

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULOPATHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RODS (RETINA); VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 30444441614     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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