The relationship of macular pigment optical density to serum lutein in retinitis pigmentosa

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1086-1091

  Sandberg, Michael A ^a   Johnson, Elizabeth J ^b   Berson, Eliot L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CENTRAL FOVEA RETINA THICKNESS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIC FLICKER PHOTOMETRY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MACULAR PIGMENT OPTICAL DENSITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SEX RATIO; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUTEIN; MACULA LUTEA; MACULAR EDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOMETRY; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 77449152205     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3396     Document Type: Article

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