Mechanistically Distinct Mouse Models for CRX-Associated Retinopathy

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Tran, Nicholas M ^a   Zhang, Alan ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Huecker, Julie B ^a   Hennig, Anne K ^a   Chen, Shiming ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONE OPSIN; CONE ROD HOMEOBOX PROTEIN; DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONE ROD HOMEOBOX GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA CONE ROD DYSTROPHY; RETINA DISEASE; RETINOPATHY; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MICE; PHENOTYPE; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84901741997     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004111     Document Type: Article

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