Cone-specific expression using a human red opsin promoter in recombinant AAV

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 332-338

  Li, Qiuhong ^a   Timmers, Adrian M ^a   Guy, John ^a   Pang, Jijing ^a   Hauswirth, William W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone; Gene therapy; Photoreceptors; Promoter; rAAV; Retina; Retinal degeneration

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OPSIN; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FERRET; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RETINA CONE; RETINA DYSTROPHY; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CONES (RETINA); DEPENDOVIRUS; FERRETS; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GUINEA PIGS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICE; OPSIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38849182375     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.07.026     Document Type: Article

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