Eye damage control by reduced blue illumination

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 863-868

  Ueda, Toshihiko ^a   Nakanishi Ueda, Takako ^a   Yasuhara, Hajime ^a   Koide, Ryohei ^a   Dawson, William W ^b  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

blue filter; blue LED; FAG; light damage; monkey; retina

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; IRRADIATION; LIGHT DAMAGE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MACACA; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETINA INJURY; RHESUS MONKEY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FILTRATION; LIGHT; MACACA MULATTA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RADIATION PROTECTION; RETINA;

EID: 70449523669     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2009.07.018     Document Type: Article

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