Effects of dystrophin isoforms on signal transduction through neural retina: Genotype-phenotype analysis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy mouse mutants

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 100-110

  Pillers, De Ann M ^a   Weleber, Richard G ^a,b   Green, Daniel G ^c   Rash, Sean M ^a   Dally, Ghassan Y ^d   Howard, Perry L ^d   Powers, Michael R ^a,b   Hood, Donald C ^e   Chapman, Verne M ^f   Ray, Peter N ^d   Woodward, William R ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

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

^f ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; B wave; Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Dystrophin; Electroretinogram; Genotype phenotype correlation

Indexed keywords

DYSTROPHIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NEUROEPITHELIAL LAYER; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; X CHROMOSOME RECESSIVE DISORDER;

EID: 0032805158     PISSN: 10967192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mgme.1998.2784     Document Type: Article

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