The ringlike structure of macular pigment in age- related maculopathy: Results from the Muenster Aging and Retina Study (MARS)

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 8016-8024

  Dietzel, Martha ^a,b   Zeimer, Meike ^b   Heimes, Britta ^b   Pauleikhoff, Daniel ^b   Hense, Hans Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b ST FRANZISKUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN; VISUAL PIGMENT; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL DENSITY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA ANGIOGRAPHY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULOPATHY; RINGLIKE STRUCTURE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; AGING; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION;

AGED; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIPOFUSCIN; LUTEIN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENTS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 84855184610     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-7610     Document Type: Article

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