Photic injury to cultured RPE varies among individual cells in proportion to their endogenous lipofuscin content as modulated by their melanosome content

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4982-4990

  Zareba, Mariusz ^a   Skumatz, Christine M B ^a   Sarna, Tadeusz J ^b   Burke, Janice M ^a  

^a EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Lipofuscin; Melanosome; Photic stress; Retinal pigment epithelium

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN; MELANOSOME; PHOTIC STRESS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELLS, CULTURED; EYE INJURIES; HUMANS; LIGHT; LIPOFUSCIN; MELANOSOMES; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

EID: 84906070993     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-14310     Document Type: Article

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