Chemical composition of melanosomes, lipofuscin and melanolipofuscin granules of human RPE tissues

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-39

  Biesemeier, Antje ^a,b   Schraermeyer, Ulrich ^b   Eibl, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; Electron energy loss spectroscopy; Energy dispersive X ray microanalysis; Energy filtered TEM; Lipofuscin; Melanolipofuscin; Melanosome

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COPPER; LIPOFUSCIN; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PHEOMELANIN; PHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHORUS; ZINC;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; BRIGHT FIELD MICROSCOPY; CELL GRANULE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY FILTERED TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MELANOLIPOFUSCIN; MELANOSOME; NORMAL HUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; STAINING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOFUSCIN; MELANOSOMES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ENERGY-FILTERING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 79960376127     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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