Preliminary results of gene therapy for retinal degeneration

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 2282-2284

  Miller, Joan W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CORTICOSTEROID; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM SPECIFIC PROTEIN;

BIOCHEMISTRY; EDITORIAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; PUPILLOMETRY; RETINA DEGENERATION; TRANSGENE; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; VIRAL GENE THERAPY; VIRUS PARTICLE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 44249100641     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe0803081     Document Type: Editorial

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