Optimal discrimination of an Abyssinian cat recessive retinal degeneration: A short electroretinogram protocol is more efficient than a long one

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 619-625

  Vaegan, A ^a,b,d   Narfström, Kristina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Vision Test Australia   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abyssinian cat; Diagnostic efficiency; Electro retinogram; Factor analysis; Recessive rod cone degeneration

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; AGE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; B WAVE; BREEDING; CAT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NIGHT VISION; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTOPIC VISION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RETINA CONE; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DARK ADAPTATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; GENES, RECESSIVE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 11344280657     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2004.00913.x     Document Type: Article

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