New mouse models for recessive retinitis pigmentosa caused by mutations in the Pde6a gene

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 178-192

  Sakamoto, Kenji ^a,d   Mccluskey, Michael ^a   Wensel, Theodore G ^b,c   Naggert, Jürgen K ^a   Nishina, Patsy M ^a  

^a JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ^*  (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; CASPASE 3; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE VIA; PHOSPHODIESTERASE VIB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES, TYPE 6; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

MURINAE; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 57649185427     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddn327     Document Type: Article

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