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Characteristics of normal human retinal pigment epithelium cells with extremes of autofluorescence or intracellular granule count.

Katharina BermondAndreas BerlinIoana-Sandra TarauChristina WobbeRainer HeintzmannChristine A CurcioKenneth R SloanThomas Ach
Published in: Annals of eye science (2021)
In normal eyes, outliers regarding autofluorescent granule load and AF intensity signals are rare among RPE cells, suggesting that granule deposition and subsequent AF follows intrinsic control mechanisms at a cellular level. The AF of a cell is related to the composition of intracellular granule types. Ongoing studies using AMD donor eyes will examine possible disease related changes in granule distribution and further put lipofuscińs role in aging and AMD further into perspective.
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