Age-dependent disease expression determines remodeling of the retinal mosaic in carriers of RPGR exon ORF15 mutations

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3985-3995

  Beltran, William A ^a   Acland, Gregory M ^b   Aguirre, Gustavo D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPSIN; PROTEIN; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA GTPASE REGULATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; X LINKED PROGRESSIVE RETINAL ATROPHY; AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

AGING; ANIMALS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EXONS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HETEROZYGOTE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

EID: 68349101304     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-3364     Document Type: Article

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