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Effects of hereditary retinal degeneration due to a CEP290 mutation on the feline pupillary light reflex.
Veterinary ophthalmology - 1 May 2010
Thompson Stewart, Whiting Rebecca E H, Kardon Randy H, Stone Edwin M, Narfström Kristina
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OBJECTIVE: To understand how progressive rod cone degeneration due to a mutation in CEP290 affects the pupillary light reflex (PLR) in domestic cats. ANIMALS STUDIED: Domestic cats identified as either normal wildtype (WT; n = 6), or homozygous for the rdAc mutation in CEP290 and having early stage retinal degeneration (stage 2, S2; n = 4), or advanced retinal degeneration (S4; n = 6). METHODS: The effect of...
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