Abstract
For many years, blue light damage associated with retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cell lipofuscin (LF) has been implicated in the cause of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) (Young, 1988; Winkler et al., 1999; Bressler et al., 2000) and other retinal degenerative diseases, such as Stargardt’s disease, (Lopez et al., 1990; Birnbach et al., 1994), Best’s macular dystrophy (Weingeist et al., 1982) and cone-rod dystrophy (Rabb et al., 1986). A2E and isomers, pyridinium bis-retinoid compounds and only major blue-light absorbing fluorophores isolated from human LF, (Eldred and Katz, 1988; Eldred and Lasky, 1993; Sakai et al., 1996; Parish et al., 1998;) account for a small fraction of the composition of LF. Proteins account for 30–70% (Schutt et al., 2002; Haralampus-Grynaviski et al., 2003). The percentage of A2E oxidation products, retinol and retinyl palmitate has not been quantified, yet these compounds, too, make up only a fraction of the composition of LF. Evidence for A2E and especially A2E photo-oxidation products’ involvement in AMD is strong (Sparrow et al., 1999; Sparrow et al., 2000; Sparrow and Cai, 2001; Ben-Shabat et al., 2002a; Finnemann et al., 2002; Sparrow et al., 2002; Sparrow et al., 2003); however, their involvement does not rule out the possibility of AMD’s etiology being multifactorial. There are many compounds in LF that have not been characterized, some of which may also play a role in the pathogenesis of AMD and other retinal degenerative diseases.
Keywords
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography
- Retinal Pigment Epithelial
- Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cell
- Retinyl Palmitate
- Human Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cell
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Vollmer-Snarr, H.R. et al. (2006). Amino-Retinoid Compounds in the Human Retinal Pigment Epithelium. In: Hollyfield, J.G., Anderson, R.E., LaVail, M.M. (eds) Retinal Degenerative Diseases. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 572. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-32442-9_11
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