Progress toward understanding the genetic and biochemical mechanisms of inherited photoreceptor degenerations

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue , 2003, Pages 657-700

  Pacione, Laura R ^a,b   Szego, Michael J ^a,b   Ikeda, Sakae ^d   Nishina, Patsy M ^d   McInnes, Roderick R ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Death kinetics; Gene expression analysis; Modifier genes; pre mRNA splicing; Retinal degeneration

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR;

CELL DEATH; CELL KINETICS; DISEASE MODEL; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA PIGMENT DEGENERATION; RETINA PIGMENT EPITHELIOPATHY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLICEOSOME;

ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL DEATH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PHOTORECEPTORS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 0042357381     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.26.041002.131416     Document Type: Review

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