It's never too late to save a photoreceptor

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3424-3426

  Hurley, James B ^a,b   Chao, Jennifer R ^a  

^a Department of Ophthalmology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; PROCEDURES; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC THERAPY; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84941711394     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI83194     Document Type: Review

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