A point mutation (W70A) in the rod PDEγ gene desensitizing and delaying murine rod photoreceptors

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 3262-3267

  Salchow, Daniel J ^a,b   Gouras, Peter ^a   Doi, Kentaro ^a   Goff, Stephen P ^c   Schwinger, Eberhard ^b   Tsang, Stephen H ^c,d  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MOUSE; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; RETINA ROD; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

3',5'-CYCLIC-GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POINT MUTATION; RETINAL DEGENERATION; ROD OUTER SEGMENTS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0032742832     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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