Clinicopathological case series of four patients with inherited macular disease

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3553-3561

  Wickham, Louisa ^a   Chen, Fred K ^a,b   Lewis, Geoffrey P ^c   Uppal, Germit S ^a   Neveu, Magella M ^a   Wright, Genevieve A ^a   Robson, Anthony G ^a   Webster, Andrew R ^b   Grierson, Iain ^d   Hiscott, Paul ^d   Coffey, Peter J ^b   Holder, Graham E ^a   Fisher, Steven K ^c   Da Cruz, Lyndon ^a  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ABC TRANSPORTER A4; CALBINDIN; CONE OPSIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PERIPHERIN; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ABCA4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; TIMP3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE FIXATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYOPIA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULOPATHY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITRECTOMY; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHOROID; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DNA MICROARRAY; EXON; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHOROID; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EXONS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE-3;

EID: 68349123625     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2715     Document Type: Article

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