date:Aug 30, 2012
The sunshine vitamin was associated with a reduction in the accumulation of amyloid beta, said to be a risk factor for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in the over 50s, report researchers from University College Londons Institute of Ophthalmology.
Given the small size of the mouse cone population, the effect of vitamin D3 on their response is surprisingly large,they wrote in Neurobiology of Aging.
In humans, the central retina, which represents the region