Canine retina has a primate fovea-like bouquet of cone photoreceptors which is affected by inherited macular degenerations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Beltran, William A ^a   Cideciyan, Artur V ^b   Guziewicz, Karina E ^a   Iwabe, Simone ^a   Swider, Malgorzata ^b   Scott, Erin M ^a   Savina, Svetlana V ^a   Ruthel, Gordon ^a   Stefano, Frank ^a   Zhang, Lingli ^b   Zorger, Richard ^b   Sumaroka, Alexander ^b   Jacobson, Samuel G ^b   Aguirre, Gustavo D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AREA CENTRALIS; ARTICLE; BEST1 GENE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EX VIVO STUDY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RPGR GENE; ANIMAL; DOG DISEASE; GENETICS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; VETERINARY;

CHLORIDE CHANNEL; EYE PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EYE PROTEINS; FOVEA CENTRALIS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MUTATION; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 84897137873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090390     Document Type: Article

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