ABSTRACT
The chapter is devoted to the screening pigments eyes of vertebrates and invertebrates animals and human eyes – melanosomes and ommochromes. A sum of literature and our own experimental data is presented, from which it follows that these screening pigments have a pronounced antioxidant activity. The role of these pigments in the physiology of the vision of vertebrates and invertebrate animals and humans is considered, as well as the role of melanosomes in aging and pathology of the human eye.
