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Changes in Autofluorescence and Macular Pigment with Age & Implications for Vision

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Abstract

Whereas macular pigment protects the photoreceptors from photopic insult, lipofuscin accumulation indirectly results from photoreceptors damage. The aging process for these pigments plays important roles in health and disease of the retina.

© 2012 Optical Society of America

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