The relationship of photoreceptor degeneration to retinal vascular development and loss in mutant rhodopsin transgenic and RCS rats

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 561-570

  Pennesi, Mark E ^a   Nishikawa, Shimpei ^a   Matthes, Michael T ^a   Yasumura, Douglas ^a   LaVail, Matthew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

blood vessel development; rat; RCS; retinal degeneration; rhodopsin mutations; transgenic

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA CAPILLARY; TRANSGENIC RAT; WILD TYPE;

AGING; ANIMALS; MUTATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINAL VESSELS; RHODOPSIN; ROD CELL OUTER SEGMENT;

EID: 56349134417     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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