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Inherited retinal degenerations: therapeutic prospects.
Biology of the cell - 1 May 2004
Delyfer Marie-Noëlle, Léveillard Thierry, Mohand-Saïd Saddek, Hicks David, Picaud Serge, Sahel José-Alain
Abstract excerpt
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a heterogeneous group of inherited retinal degenerative diseases, characterized by the progressive death of rod and cone photoreceptors. A tremendous genetic heterogeneity is associated with the RP phenotype. Most mutations affect rods selectively and, through an unknown pathway, cause the rod cells to die by apoptosis. Cones, on the other hand, are seldom directly affected by the...
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