Additional Readings

  1. Algvere PV. Marshall J, Seregard S. Age-related maculopathy and the impact of blue light hazard. Acta Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;84(1):4-15.
  2.  Taylor HR, Muñoz B. West S. Bressler NM, Bressler SB. Rosenthal FS: Visible light and risk of age-related macular degeneration. Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Trans Am Ophthalmology 199o: 88:163-73.
  3. Wielgus AR. Roberts JE. Retinal photo damage by endogenous and xenobiotic agents. Photochemistry Photobiology, 201.2 Nov;88(6):1320.
  4. Tomany, S., Cruickshanks, K., Klein, R., Klein, B., Knudtson, M. Sunlight and the 10-year incidence of age-related maculopathy: the Beaver Dam Eye Study. Arch Ophthalmology. (2004) 122(5), 750-757, Correction.
  5. Webster MA, Juricevic I. McDermott KC. Simulations of adaptation and color appearance in observers with varying spectral sensitivity. Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics. 2010 Sep;30(5):602-10. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.
  6. Fletcher, A., Bentham, G., et al. Sunlight Exposure, Antioxidants, and Age-Related Macular Degeneration, EUREYE. Arch Ophthalmol. October 2008: 126(10):1396-1403.
  7. Sama. T. and H. A. Swartz (1998) The physical properties of melanin. In The Pigment System: Physiology and Pathophysiology. (Edited by J. J. Nordland, R. E. Boissy. V. J. Hearing, R. A. King and J.-P. Ortonne) pp. 333-358. Oxford University Press. Oxford.
  8. Sparrow JR. Fishkin N, Zhou J, Cai B. Jang YP, Krane S, Itagaki Y, Nakanishi K. A2E, a byproduct of the visual cycle. Vision Res. 2003 Dec;43(28):2983-90.
  9. Lockley SW, Brainard GC, Czeisler CA. High sensitivity of the human circadian melatonin rhythm to resetting by short wavelength light. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2003 Sep;88(9):4502-.
  10. Brainard GC. Sliney D, Hanifin JP, Glickman G, Byrne B, Greeson JM, Jasser S, Gerner E, Rollag, MD. Sensitivity of the human circadian system to short-wavelength (420-nm) J Biol Rhythms. 2008 Oct;23(5):379-86.