A mouse model for studying cone photoreceptor pathologies

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 5304-5313

  Samardzija, Marijana ^a   Caprara, Christian ^a   Heynen, Severin R ^a   DeParis, Sarah Willcox ^a   Meneau, Isabelle ^a   Traber, Ghislaine ^a   Agca, Cavit ^a   von Lintig, Johannes ^b   Grimm, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AMD; Cone cell death; Mouse model; RPE65

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALRETININ; PROTEIN KINASE C ALPHA; RETINOID; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISUAL THRESHOLD; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMD; CONE CELL DEATH; MOUSE MODEL; RPE65;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CIS-TRANS-ISOMERASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINALDEHYDE;

EID: 84907662240     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-14789     Document Type: Article

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