The chick as an animal model of eye disease

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages e225-e230

  Hocking, Paul M ^a   Guggenheim, Jeremy A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BLINDNESS; CHICK; COLOBOMA; EYE DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RESOURCE; MICROMELIA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA MALFORMATION; RETINOPATHY; REVIEW;

EID: 84899470365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17406757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmod.2014.02.003     Document Type: Review

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