Tel: (305)
348-3082
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348-6700
Office: CP 213
Lab:
CP 276
(Sinaia, Romania,
2005)
(Jamaica......a few years ago)
Research
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Experimental
Biophysics - Physics
of the eye and visual system: Macular pigment and its possible
relationship
with age-related macular degeneration; non-invasive measurement of the
macular pigment; cumulative light distribution on the human retina.
Recent
Publications
Bone
R.A., Landrum J.T., Guerra L.H., and Ruiz C. (2003) Lutein
and
zeaxanthin dietary supplements raise macular pigment density and serum
concentrations of these carotenoids. J. Nutr. 133,
992-998.
Krinsky
N.I., Landrum J.T., Bone R.A. (2003) Biologic mechanisms of the
protective role of lutein and
zeaxanthin in the eye. Annu. Rev. Nutr. 23, 171-201.
Bone
R.A., Landrum J.T. (2004) Heterochromatic flicker photometery. Arch.
Biochem. Biophys. 430, 137-142.
Bone R.A., Landrum J.T., Gibert J.C. (2004) Macular pigment
and the edge hypothesis of flicker photometry. Vision
Res. 44, 3045-3051.
Rosenthal
J.M., Kim J., de Monastario F., Thompson D.J.S., Bone R.A., Landrum
J.T., de
Moura F.F., Khachik F., Chen H.,
Schleicher R.L., Ferris III F.L., Chew E.Y. (2006) Dose-ranging study
of lutein supplementation in persons aged 60 years or older. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis.
Sci. 47, 5227-5233.
Bone
R.A., Landrum
J.T., Cao Y., Howard A.N., Alvarez-Calderon F. (2006) Macular pigment response
to a supplement containing meso-zeaxanthin, lutein and zeaxanthin. Nutr. Metab.
4:12.
Bone R.A., Brener B., Gibert J.C. (2007) Macular pigment,
photopigments, and
melanin: distributions determined by four-wavelength reflectometry.
Vision Res. 47, 3259-3268.
Bone R.A. and Draper G. (2007) Optical anisotropy of the human cornea
determined with a polarizing microscope. Applied Optics 46,
8351-8357.
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