Seeing the light

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 175, 2013, Pages

  Wojno, Adam P ^a   Pierce, Eric A ^b   Bennett, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; PROTEIN; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM SPECIFIC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE; DRUG EFFICACY; FOLLOW UP; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVIEW; RPR65 GENE; VIRAL GENE THERAPY; VISION;

BLINDNESS; HUMANS; OPTIC ATROPHY, HEREDITARY, LEBER;

EID: 84875178250     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3005798     Document Type: Review

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