Natural history of cone disease in the murine model of Leber congenital amaurosis due to CEP290 mutation: Determining the timing and expectation of therapy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Boye, Shannon E ^a   Huang, Wei Chieh ^b   Roman, Alejandro J ^b   Sumaroka, Alexander ^b   Boye, Sanford L ^a   Ryals, Renee C ^a   Olivares, Melani B ^b   Ruan, Qing ^a   Tucker, Budd A ^c   Stone, Edwin M ^c   Swaroop, Anand ^d   Cideciyan, Artur V ^b   Hauswirth, William W ^a   Jacobson, Samuel G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILIA CENTROSOMAL PROTEIN 290; OPSIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CEP290 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CEP290 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CEP290 GENE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINAL THICKNESS; SCHOOL CHILD; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; ADULT; AGE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; RETINA; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CHILD; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84899847101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092928     Document Type: Article

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