The association of retinal structure and macular pigment distribution

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1169-1175

  zu Westrup, Verena Meyer ^a   Dietzel, Martha ^b   Pauleikhoff, Daniel ^b   Hense, Hans Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b ST FRANZISKUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Macular pigment; MARS; MPOD; Optical coherence tomography; Retinal morphology

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINAL THICKNESS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; MACULAR PIGMENT; MARS; MPOD; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINAL MORPHOLOGY;

AGED; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUTEIN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEINS; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 84895532627     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-12903     Document Type: Article

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