Polyunsaturated fatty acids are lower in blood lipids of Usher's type I but not Usher's type II

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2164-2166

  Maude, Maureen B ^a,b,c   Anderson, Elizabeth O ^b   Anderson, Robert E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; USHER SYNDROME;

ADULT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

EID: 0031682584     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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