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ArticleOxidative medicine and cellular longevity2017

Zinc Protects Oxidative Stress-Induced RPE Death by Reducing Mitochondrial Damage and Preventing Lysosome Rupture.

Dinusha Rajapakse, Tim Curtis, Mei Chen, Heping Xu

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Article in Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dinusha RajapakseCentre for Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK.
Tim CurtisCentre for Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK.
Mei ChenCentre for Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK.
Heping XuCentre for Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4000-931X
Queen's University Belfast · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Zinc deficiency is known to increase the risk of the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), although the underlying mechanism remains poorly defined. In this study, we investigated the effect of zinc on retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) survival and function under oxidative conditions. Zinc level was 5.4

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Cell DeathCells, CulturedHumansLysosomesMitochondriaOxidative StressPhagocytosisProtective AgentsRetinal Pigment EpitheliumTrace ElementsZincProtective AgentsTrace ElementsZinc

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PMID29348791
PMCPMC5733978
OpenAlexW2768704224

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