Disruption of a retinal guanylyl cyclase gene leads to cone-specific dystrophy and paradoxical rod behavior

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 5889-5897

  Yang, Ruey Bing ^a,e   Robinson, Susan W ^a   Xiong, Wei Hong ^c   Yau, King Wai ^c   Birch, David G ^a,b   Garbers, David L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone dystrophy; Cyclic GMP; Gene disruption; Guanylyl cyclase E; Guanylyl cyclases; Mice; Photoreceptors; Retina

Indexed keywords

GUANYLATE CYCLASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; GENE DISRUPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA CONE; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINA ROD; VISION;

EID: 0033565767     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-14-05889.1999     Document Type: Article

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