The effect of calcium channel blocker diltiazem on photoreceptor degeneration in the rhodopsin Pro23His rat

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2697-2701

  Bush, R A ^a   Kononen, L ^a   Machida, S ^a   Sieving, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DILTIAZEM; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; DILTIAZEM; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTIDINE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; POINT MUTATION; PROLINE; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RHODOPSIN; ROD OUTER SEGMENTS;

EID: 0033861507     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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