Generation of an inbred miniature pig model of retinitis pigmentosa

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 501-507

  Ross, Jason W ^a,b   Fernandez de Castro, Juan P ^c   Zhao, Jianguo ^b,d   Samuel, Melissa ^b   Walters, Eric ^b   Rios, Cecilia ^e   Bray Ward, Patricia ^e   Jones, Bryan W ^f   Marc, Robert E ^f   Wang, Wei ^c   Zhou, Liang ^c   Noel, Jennifer M ^g   McCall, Maureen A ^c,g   DeMarco, Paul J ^c   Prather, Randall S ^b   Kaplan, Henry J ^c,g  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHODOPSIN; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FETUS; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MINIPIG; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SOMATIC CELL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PIG; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SWINE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MUTATION; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RHODOPSIN; RNA; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE;

EID: 84858858553     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8784     Document Type: Article

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