Mouse mutants as models for congenital retinal disorders

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 503-512

  Dalke, Claudia ^a   Graw, Jochen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal model; Gene mutation; Mouse; Retina; Retinal degeneration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; EVALUATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENOTYPE; INTRON; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RETINOPATHY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES;

EID: 27444437192     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2005.06.004     Document Type: Review

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