Defective trafficking of rhodopsin and its role in retinal degenerations

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 293, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-44

  Hollingsworth, T J ^a   Gross, Alecia K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Civitan International Research Center Evelyn F McKnight Brain Institute University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Bardet Biedl syndrome; Leber's congenital amaurosis; Mislocalization; Retinal degeneration; Retinitis pigmentosa; Rhodopsin; Usher syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADIPOPHILIN; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; RHODOPSIN; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME; CELL MIGRATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CILIARY BODY EPITHELIUM; DIALLELIC RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RIBOZYME THERAPY; USHER SYNDROME; VISION; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

EID: 84855831674     PISSN: 19376448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394304-0.00006-3     Document Type: Chapter

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