Lipofuscin redistribution and loss accompanied by cytoskeletal stress in retinal pigment epithelium of eyes with age-related macular degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3242-3252

  Ach, Thomas ^a,b   Tolstik, Elen ^c,d   Messinger, Jeffrey D ^a   Zarubina, Anna V ^a   Heintzmann, Rainer ^c,d,e   Curcio, Christine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMD; Autofluorescence; Granule; Lipofuscin; Melanolipofuscin

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ADULT; AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CELL AGGREGATION; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DEGRANULATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MELANOSOME; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; MACULAR DEGENERATION; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPOFUSCIN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 84939796366     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-16274     Document Type: Article

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