White light-emitting diodes (LEDs) at domestic lighting levels and retinal injury in a rat model

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 269-276

  Shang, Yu Man ^a   Wang, Gen Shuh ^a   Sliney, David ^b   Yang, Chang Hao ^c,d   Lee, Li Ling ^e  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Army Medical Department Center and School   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ILLUMINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MALE; NECROSIS; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA INJURY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WHITE LIGHT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; COLOR; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NECROSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RETINAL NEURONS;

EID: 84895090683     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307294     Document Type: Article

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