CellWell record HH-19233
Zinc and the eye
Grahn BH; Paterson PG; Gottschall-Pass KT; Zhang Z
Journal of the American College of Nutrition ยท 2001
In plain language
Zinc sits at high concentration in the retina and choroid, where it interacts with taurine and vitamin A, modifies photoreceptor membranes, helps regulate the light-rhodopsin reaction and acts as an antioxidant.
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