The pro-oxidant effects of interactions of ascorbate with photoexcited melanin fade away with aging of the retina

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 658-670

  Rózanowski, Bartosz ^a   Burke, Janice ^b   Sarna, Tadeusz ^c   Rózanowska, Małgorzata ^c,d  

^a PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; FREE RADICAL; LIPOFUSCIN; MELANIN; OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINETICS; LIGHT; MELANOSOME; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANIMALS; ASCORBIC ACID; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FREE RADICALS; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIGHT; LIPOFUSCIN; MELANINS; MELANOSOMES; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE;

EID: 42549169323     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2007.00291.x     Document Type: Article

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