Isolation of canine retinal arrestin cDNA and exclusion of three candidate genes for Swedish Briard retinal dystrophy

Current Eye Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 270-274

  Veske, Andres ^a,e   Narfström, Kristina ^b   Finckh, Ulrich ^a   Sargan, David R ^c   Nilsson, Sven Erik G ^d   Gal, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Canine retinal arrestin; Canine retinal degeneration; Canine retinal dystrophy; Swedish Briard

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EYE PROTEIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; RETINA S ANTIGEN; RHODOPSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DYSTROPHY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARRESTINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RHODOPSIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030941014     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.16.3.270.15413     Document Type: Article

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