Hidden blue hazard?: Led lighting and retinal damage in rats

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Lougheed, Tim ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

BLUE LIGHT; CELL DEATH; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA INJURY; SLEEP DISORDER; WHITE LIGHT;

ANIMALS; LIGHT; MALE; RETINA;

EID: 84895084880     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.122-A81     Document Type: Note

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