Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for ciliopathies and related forms of photoreceptor degeneration

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 723, Issue , 2012, Pages 533-538

  Mok, Calvin A ^a,b   Héon, Elise ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bardet Biedl syndrome; C. Elegans; Ciliopathy; Model organism; Photoreceptor degeneration; Primary cilia

Indexed keywords

BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME; BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME GENE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL TRANSPORT; CELL VACUOLE; CILIOPATHY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE MODEL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DISORDER; INTRAFLAGELLAR TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR DEGRADATION; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RETINOPATHY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BARDET-BIEDL SYNDROME; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CILIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84855939260     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0631-0_67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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