Quantitative autofluorescence and cell density maps of the human retinal pigment epithelium

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4832-4841

  Ach, Thomas ^a   Huisingh, Carrie ^a   McGwin Jr , Gerald ^a,b   Messinger, Jeffrey D ^a   Zhang, Tianjiao ^a   Bentley, Mark J ^b   Gutierrez, Danielle B ^c   Ablonczy, Zsolt ^d   Theodore Smith, R ^e   Sloan, Kenneth R ^b   Curcio, Christine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autofluorescence; Cytoskeleton; Lipofuscin; Photoreceptor; Retinal pigment epithelium

Indexed keywords

AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CYTOSKELETON; LIPOFUSCIN; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELL COUNT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOFUSCIN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL IMAGING; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

EID: 84905690180     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-14802     Document Type: Article

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