Functional and structural changes in the retina of wire-haired dachshunds with early-onset cone-rod dystrophy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1106-1115

  Ropstad, Ernst O ^a   Narfström, Kristina ^b   Lingaas, Frode ^a   Wiik, Caroline ^a   Bruun, Anitha ^c   Bjerkås, Ellen ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; OPSIN; PEANUT AGGLUTININ; PROTEIN KINASE C; RHODOPSIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOG; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EYE EXAMINATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE ROD DYSTROPHY; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA ROD; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; DOG DISEASE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; OPSIN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PROTEIN KINASE C; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RHODOPSIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 41949128427     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0848     Document Type: Article

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