Rescue from photoreceptor degeneration in the rd mouse by human immunodeficiency virus vector-mediated gene transfer

Journal of Virology

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 7812-7816

  Takahashi, Masayo ^a,b   Miyoshi, Hiroyuki ^a   Verma, Inder M ^a   Gage, Fred H ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLINDNESS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

EID: 0032816002     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.73.9.7812-7816.1999     Document Type: Article

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