A hybrid photoreceptor expressing both rod and cone genes in a mouse model of enhanced S-cone syndrome

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 0140-0153

  Corbo, Joseph C ^a,b,c,d   Cepko, Constance L ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYBRID CELL; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD;

ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYBRID CELLS; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPSIN; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RODS (RETINA);

EID: 33144472133     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0010011     Document Type: Article

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