Rpe65-/- and Lrat-/- mice: Comparable models of Leber congenital amaurosis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2384-2389

  Fan, Jie ^a   Rohrer, Baerbel ^a   Frederick, Jeanne M ^b   Baehr, Wolfgang ^b,c   Crouch, Rosalie K ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11 CIS RETINAL; OPSIN; ACYLTRANSFERASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; LECITHIN RETINOL ACYLTRANSFERASE; LECITHIN-RETINOL ACYLTRANSFERASE; RETINAL; RPE65 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL REGENERATION; DEGENERATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; VISION; ANIMAL; BLINDNESS; DISEASE MODEL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA DEGENERATION;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OPSIN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINALDEHYDE;

EID: 47249128518     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-1727     Document Type: Article

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