Retinal Changes Precede Visual Dysfunction in the Complement Factor H Knockout Mouse

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Williams, Jennifer A E ^a   Greenwood, John ^a   Moss, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; DECAY ACCELERATING FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CFH GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; GENE DELETION; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MACROGLIA; MELANOSOME; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA DISEASE; VISUAL DISORDER;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD55; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOSOMES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MITOCHONDRIA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84879766289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068616     Document Type: Article

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