Retinal degeneration in cone photoreceptor cell-ablated transgenic mice

Molecular Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 101-108

  Ying, Saixia ^a   Jansen, Heiko T ^a   Lehman, Michael N ^a   Fong, Shao Ling ^b   Kao, Winston W Y ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; TRANSDUCIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CONES (RETINA); DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODS (RETINA); TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 0034709495     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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