Endothelin-2-Mediated Protection of Mutant Photoreceptors in Inherited Photoreceptor Degeneration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Bramall, Alexa N ^a,b   Szego, Michael J ^a,b   Pacione, Laura R ^a,b   Chang, Inik ^d   Diez, Eduardo ^c   D'Orleans Juste, Pedro ^e   Stewart, Duncan J ^f   Hauswirth, William W ^g   Yanagisawa, Masashi ^d   McInnes, Roderick R ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^f OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDN2 GENE; GENE; HOMOZYGOSITY; INHERITED PHOTORECEPTOR DEGENERATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHOTORECEPTOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA DEGENERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL SURVIVAL; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHODIESTERASES, TYPE 6; ENDOTHELIN-2; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; RHODOPSIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84874564133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058023     Document Type: Article

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