Intraocular gene transfer of ciliary neurotrophic factor prevents death and increases responsiveness of rod photoreceptors in the retinal degeneration slow mouse

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 9282-9293

  Cayouette, Michel ^a   Behn, Darren ^a   Sendtner, Michael ^a   Lachapelle, Pierre ^a   Gravel, Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Ciliary neurotrophic factor; Electroretinogram; Gene transfer; Photoreceptors; Retina; Retinitis pigmentosa; Rhodopsin

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; GENE TRANSFER; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; RETINA DEGENERATION;

EID: 0032533962     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-22-09282.1998     Document Type: Article

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