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Histopathologic and immunocytochemical analysis of the retina and ocular tissues in Batten disease.
Ophthalmology - 1 Sept 2000
Bensaoula T, Shibuya H, Katz M L, Smith J E, Johnson G S, John S K, Milam A H
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To describe the pathophysiologic features of retinal degeneration in Batten disease (juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis [JNCL]) caused by mutations in the CLN3 gene. STUDY DESIGN: Comparative human tissue study. MATERIALS: The retina and other ocular tissues of a 22-year-old man with JNCL were compared with the same tissues of a healthy 30-year-old man. DNA from whole blood and RNA from retina were...
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