Biology and therapy of inherited retinal degenerative disease: Insights from mouse models

DMM Disease Models and Mechanisms

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 109-129

  Veleri, Shobi ^a   Lazar, Csilla H ^a,b   Chang, Bo ^c   Sieving, Paul A ^a   Banin, Eyal ^a,d   Swaroop, Anand ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^c JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^d HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Mouse mutants; Photoreceptor; Retinal development; Retinal disease

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; CELL THERAPY; GENE THERAPY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MOUSE MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINOSCHISIS; REVIEW; STARGARDT DISEASE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MICE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 84922507236     PISSN: 17548403     EISSN: 17548411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dmm.017913     Document Type: Review

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