Properties and Functions of Ocular Melanins and Melanosomes

Melanins and Melanosomes: Biosynthesis, Biogenesis, Physiological, and Pathological Functions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 187-224

  Rózanowska, Malgorzata ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Choroid; Iris; Melanogenesis; Pro oxidant; Retinal pigment epithelium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878767132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527636150.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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