Double homozygous waltzer and Ames waltzer mice provide no evidence of retinal degeneration

Molecular Vision

Volumn 14, Issue , 2008, Pages 2227-2236

  Ahmed, Zubair M ^a   Kjellstrom, Sten ^a   Haywood Watson II, Ricky J L ^a,b   Bush, Ronald A ^a   Hampton, Lori L ^a,c   Battey, James F ^a,c   Riazuddin, Saima ^a   Frolenkov, Gregory ^d   Sieving, Paul A ^a,e   Friedman, Thomas B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CADHERIN 23; PROTOCADHERIN 15; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTI ORGAN; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALLELES; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CILIA; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 57749169076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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