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Neuroprotective effects of lutein in a rat model of retinal detachment

BACKGROUND: Retinal detachment (RD) is a leading cause of blindness, and although final surgical re-attachment rate has greatly improved, visual outcome in many macula-off detachments is disappointing, mainly because of photoreceptor cell death. We previously showed that lutein is anti-apoptotic in...

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Autores principales: Woo, Tiffany T. Y., Li, Suk-Yee, Lai, Wico W. K., Wong, David, Lo, Amy C. Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3536954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22899456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00417-012-2128-z