Restoration of cone vision in the CNGA3-/- mouse model of congenital complete lack of cone photoreceptor function

Molecular Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2057-2063

  Michalakis, Stylianos ^a   Mühlfriedel, Regine ^b   Tanimoto, Naoyuki ^b   Krishnamoorthy, Vidhyasankar ^c   Koch, Susanne ^a   Fischer, M Dominik ^b   Becirovic, Elvir ^a   Bai, Lin ^a   Huber, Gesine ^b   Beck, Susanne C ^b   Fahl, Edda ^b   Büning, Hildegard ^d   Paquet Durand, François ^b   Zong, Xiangang ^a   Gollisch, Tim ^c   Biel, Martin ^a   Seeliger, Mathias W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED A3 CHANNEL; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; OPSIN; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; COLOR BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; MOUSE; MUELLER CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

MUS;

EID: 78650918670     PISSN: 15250016     EISSN: 15250024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mt.2010.149     Document Type: Article

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