Treatment possibilities for retinitis pigmentosa

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 1669-1671

  Jacobson, Samuel G ^a   Cideciyan, Artur V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOID; CARRIER PROTEIN; CIS TRANS ISOMERASE; EYE PROTEIN; HALORHODOPSIN; RETINOID ISOMEROHYDROLASE;

ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HUMAN; IMPLANT; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPLEMENTATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOLOGY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RETINA; RETINA CONE;

CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CIS-TRANS-ISOMERASES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EYE PROTEINS; GENETIC THERAPY; HALORHODOPSINS; HUMANS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

EID: 77958609552     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcibr1007685     Document Type: Article

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