Changes in macular pigment optical density and serum concentrations of its constituent carotenoids following supplemental lutein and zeaxanthin: The LUNA study

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 718-728

  Trieschmann, Meike ^a   Beatty, Stephen ^b   Nolan, John M ^b   Hense, Hans Werner ^c   Heimes, Britta ^a   Austermann, Ulrike ^a   Fobker, Manfred ^c   Pauleikhoff, Daniel ^a  

^a ST FRANZISKUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b Ireland   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

age related macular degeneration; lutein; macular pigment; Ocuvite Lutein ; zeaxanthin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; SELENIUM; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN; ZINC;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABSORPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OPTICAL DENSITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIOXIDANTS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL; LUTEIN; MACULA LUTEA; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 33947190545     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2006.12.010     Document Type: Article

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