Albino mice as an animal model for infantile nystagmus syndrome

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5737-5747

  Traber, Ghislaine L ^a,c   Chen, Chien Cheng ^b,c   Huang, Ying Yu ^b,c   Spoor, Marcella ^d   Roos, Jeanine ^d   Frens, Maarten A ^d   Straumann, Dominik ^b,c,e   Grimm, Christian ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Neuroscience Center Zurich and Division of Neurosurgery   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBINO; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DARKNESS; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; INFRARED OCULOGRAPHY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NYSTAGMUS; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CONGENITAL NYSTAGMUS; DBA MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; OCULOCUTANEOUS ALBINISM; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALBINISM, OCULOCUTANEOUS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; NYSTAGMUS, CONGENITAL; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC;

EID: 84871006275     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10137     Document Type: Article

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