Retinitis pigmentosa: Rod photoreceptor rescue by a calcium-channel blocker in the rd mouse

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1183-1187

  Frasson, Maria ^a   Sahel, Jose A ^a   Fabre, Michel ^a   Simonutti, Manuel ^a   Dreyfus, Henri ^a   Picaud, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DILTIAZEM; PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; VISION;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CYCLIC GMP; DILTIAZEM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ION CHANNEL GATING; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RODS (RETINA);

EID: 0032881941     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/13508     Document Type: Article

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