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Immunological protein expression profile in Ccl2/Cx3cr1 deficient mice with lesions similar to age-related macular degeneration.
Experimental eye research - 1 Apr 2008
Ross Robert J, Zhou Min, Shen Defen, Fariss Robert N, Ding Xiaoyan, Bojanowski Christine M, Tuo Jingsheng, Chan Chi-Chao
Abstract excerpt
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in the United States. Ccl2 knock-out (KO) mice sporadically develop the cardinal features of AMD in their senescent stage. Humans bearing a loss of function variant or single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in CX3CR1 are at increased risk of developing AMD. We recently developed Ccl2(-/-)/Cx3cr1(-/-) mice, which consistently develop retinal...
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