Targeted ablation of Crb2 in photoreceptor cells induces retinitis pigmentosa

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 3384-3401

  Alves, Celso Henrique ^a   Pellissier, Lucie P ^a   Vos, Rogier M ^a   Garrido, Marina Garcia ^b   Sothilingam, Vithiyanjali ^b   Seide, Christina ^b   Beck, Susanne C ^b   Klooster, Jan ^a   Furukawa, Takahisa ^c,d   Flannery, John G ^e   Verhaagen, Joost ^a   Seeliger, Mathias W ^b   Wijnholds, Jan ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA BIOSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; CRE RECOMBINASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; CRB2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

A WAVE; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUMBS HOMOLOG 2 GENE; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENE TARGETING; HYDROCEPHALUS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; MUELLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MACROGLIA; MALE; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; EPENDYMOGLIAL CELLS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

EID: 84902342968     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddu048     Document Type: Article

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