The phototoxicity of aged human retinal melanosomes

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 650-657

  Rózanowski, Bartosz ^a,b   Cuenco, Joyceline ^a   Davies, Sallyanne ^a   Shamsi, Farukh A ^a,c   Za̧dło, Andrzej ^d   Dayhaw Barker, Pierrette ^e   Rózanowska, Małgorzata ^a   Sarna, Tadeusz ^d   Boulton, Michael E ^f  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c King Khalid Eye Specialist Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

^f University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIGHT; LYSOSOME; MELANOSOME; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PH; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; FREE RADICALS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIGHT; LYSOSOMES; MELANOSOMES; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE;

BOVINAE;

EID: 42549134385     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2007.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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