Targeted knockdown of Cerkl, a retinal dystrophy gene, causes mild affectation of the retinal ganglion cell layer

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease

Volumn 1822, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1258-1269

  Garanto, Alejandro ^a,b,c   Vicente Tejedor, Javier ^d   Riera, Marina ^a,b,c   De la Villa, Pedro ^d   Gonzàlez Duarte, Roser ^a,b,c   Blanco, Román ^d   Marfany, Gemma ^a,b,c  

^a Universitat de Barcelona Av Diagonal 645 E 08028 Barcelona Catalonia   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ganglion cell; Knockout model; Retinal dystrophy; Retinitis pigmentosa

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN CERKL; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GLIOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRON; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EXONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RETINA; RETINAL DYSTROPHIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

MUS;

EID: 84861417656     PISSN: 09254439     EISSN: 1879260X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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