Disease-associated mutations in CNGB3 promote cytotoxicity in photoreceptor-derived cells

Molecular Vision

Volumn 19, Issue , 2013, Pages 1268-1281

  Liu, Chunming ^a,b   Sherpa, Tshering ^b   Varnum, Michael D ^b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 (4 CHLOROPHENYLTHIO) CYCLIC AMP; 8 (4 CHLOROPHENYLTHIO) CYCLIC GMP; CALCIUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL A3; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CHANNEL B3; DILTIAZEM; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROTECTION; CELL VIABILITY; CHANNEL GATING; CNGB3 GENE; COLOR BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANNEXIN A5; CALCIUM; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; CYCLIC GMP; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CATION CHANNELS; DILTIAZEM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; ION CHANNEL GATING; LIGANDS; MUTATION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PROTECTIVE AGENTS; XENOPUS;

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