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IN a recent letter, Dartnall and Thomson1 suggest that because blood-vessels are absent from the macular region of the human retina, this area might be expected to suffer from a relative anoxia compared to the rest of the retina. Since this is certainly not the case, they suggest that the yellow macular pigment may supply a secondary oxygen-carrying system.
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TANSLEY, K. Retinal Oxygen Supply and Macular Pigmentation. Nature 165, 524 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165524a0
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