"Macular Pigment" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A yellow pigment that accumulates in the MACULA LUTEA. It is composed of LUTEIN, meso-zeaxanthin, and ZEAXANTHIN.
| Descriptor ID |
D065348
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D23.767.261.887.625
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| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Macular Pigment" by people in Profiles.
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Correlations Between Macular, Skin, and Serum Carotenoids. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2017 07 01; 58(9):3616-3627.