Genetically Engineered Large Animal Model for Studying Cone Photoreceptor Survival and Degeneration In Retinitis Pigmentosa

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 965-970

  Petters, Robert M ^d   Alexander, Curtis A ^d   Wells, Kevin D ^d   Collins, E Bruce ^d   Sommer, Jeffrey R ^d   Blanton, Maria R ^d   Rojas, Guadalupe ^d   Hao, Ying ^a   Flowers, William L ^d   Banin, Eyal ^c   Cideciyan, Artur V ^c   Jacobson, Samuel G ^c   Wong, Fulton ^a,b  

^a Department of Ophthalmology ^*  (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NERVE DEGENERATION; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SWINE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CONES (RETINA); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RHODOPSIN; SWINE; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030851707     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1097-965     Document Type: Article

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