Zeaxanthin and ocular health, from bench to bedside

Fitoterapia

Volumn 109, Issue , 2016, Pages 58-66

  Manikandan, Ramar ^a   Thiagarajan, Raman ^b   Goutham, Ganesh ^a   Arumugam, Munusamy ^a   Beulaja, Manikandan ^c   Rastrelli, Luca ^d   Skalicka Woźniak, Krystyna ^e   Habtemariam, Solomon ^f   Orhan, Ilkay Erdogan ^g   Nabavi, Seyed Fazel ^h   Nabavi, Seyed Mohammad ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

^b SASTRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Annai Veilankanni's Pharmacy College   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^g GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^h BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Cataract; Ocular problems; Oxidative stress; Zeaxanthin

Indexed keywords

ZEAXANTHIN;

BIOAVAILABILITY; CHEMISTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFECT; EYE DISEASE; HEALTH; IN VITRO STUDY; LENS EPITHELIUM CELL; OCULAR HEALTH; OCULAR TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; REVIEW; SENILE CATARACT; AGING; CATARACT; DIET; DRUG EFFECTS; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CATARACT; DIET; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RETINA; ZEAXANTHINS;

EID: 84950987932     PISSN: 0367326X     EISSN: 18736971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fitote.2015.12.009     Document Type: Review

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