Myosin 7aa-/- mutant zebrafish show mild photoreceptor degeneration and reduced electroretinographic responses

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 122, Issue , 2014, Pages 65-76

  Wasfy, Meagan M ^a,b   Matsui, Jonathan I ^a,c   Miller, Jessica ^a   Dowling, John E ^a   Perkins, Brian D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

ERG; Myo7a; Photoreceptor; Ush1B; Usher syndrome; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

CONE OPSIN; MYOSIN VIIA;

A WAVE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CELL DEATH; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; EYE DISEASE; EYE MOVEMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MELANOSOME; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OPTOKINETIC STIMULATION; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR CONNECTING CILIUM; PHOTORECEPTOR DEGENERATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VISION; ZEBRA FISH;

ERG; MYO7A; PHOTORECEPTOR; USH1B; USHER SYNDROME; ZEBRAFISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL DEATH; CODON, NONSENSE; DARK ADAPTATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIGHT; MELANOSOMES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYOSINS; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL ROD PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; ROD OPSINS; USHER SYNDROMES; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84904437529     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2014.03.007     Document Type: Article

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