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Ageing of the Retina and Retinal Pigment Epithelium

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Ageing has been de fi ned as “the progressive accumulation of changes with time that are associated with, or responsible for, the ever-increasing susceptibility to disease and death which accompanies advancing age”[1].

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I would like to thank Lynn Shaw for the artwork and Prajitha Thampi, Haripriya Vittal Rao, Alexander Podlaski and Sayak Mitter for proofreading this manuscript. The author’s research is supported by NIH grant EY019688 and AHAF grant M2009024.

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Boulton, M.E. (2013). Ageing of the Retina and Retinal Pigment Epithelium. In: Holz, F., Pauleikhoff, D., Spaide, R., Bird, A. (eds) Age-related Macular Degeneration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22107-1_3

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