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Is Retinal Metabolic Dysfunction at the Center of the Pathogenesis of Age-related Macular Degeneration?
The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) forms the outer blood–retina barrier and facilitates the transepithelial transport of glucose into the outer retina via GLUT1. Glucose is metabolized in photoreceptors via the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA) and oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) but also by aerob...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6387069/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30754662 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms20030762 |