Divergent phenotypes of vision and accessory visual function in mice with visual cycle dysfunction (Rpe65rd12) or retinal degeneration (rd/rd)

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2737-2742

  Thompson, Stewart ^a,b,c   Mullins, Robert F ^c   Philp, Alisdair R ^b   Stone, Edwin M ^b   Mrosovsky, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; VISION; VISUAL MASKING; WILD TYPE; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL DISORDER;

CARRIER PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; RPE65 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARRIER PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL DEGENERATION; VISION; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47249097872     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1546     Document Type: Article

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