Multifocal visual evoked potentials reveal normal optic nerve projections in human carriers of oculocutaneous albinism type 1a

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2756-2764

  Hoffmann, Michael B ^a   Wolynski, Barbara ^a   Meltendorf, Synke ^a   Behrens Baumann, Wolfgang ^a   Käsmann Kellner, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; OCULOCUTANEOUS ALBINISM; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; GENETICS; OCULAR ALBINISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; ALBINISM, OCULOCUTANEOUS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTIC NERVE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 47249111655     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1461     Document Type: Article

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