Night blindness in Sorsby's fundus dystrophy reversed by vitamin A

Nature Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 27-32

  Jacobson, Samuel G ^a,c   Cideciyan, Artur V ^a   Regunath, Gopalakrishnan ^a   Rodriguez, Francisco J ^a   Vandenburgh, Kimberlie ^b   Sheffield, Val C ^b   Stone, Edwin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION TEST; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITAMIN INTAKE;

ADULT; BRUCH MEMBRANE; DIFFUSION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTEINS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RODS (RETINA); SCOTOMA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF-METALLOPROTEINASE-3; VITAMIN A;

EID: 0029114249     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0995-27     Document Type: Article

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