Rhodopsin transgenic pigs as a model for human retinitis pigmentosa

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 808-819

  Li, Zong Yi ^a   Wong, Fulton ^b,d   Chang, Jean H ^a   Possin, Daniel E ^a   Hao, Ying ^b   Petters, Robert M ^c   Milam, Ann H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DISEASE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SWINE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; NEUROGLIA; PHOTORECEPTORS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RHODOPSIN; SWINE;

EID: 0031980355     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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