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Preservation of Cone Photoreceptors after a Rapid yet Transient Degeneration and Remodeling in Cone-Only<i>Nrl</i><sup>−/−</sup>Mouse Retina
11 Jan 2012
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Cone photoreceptors are the primary initiator of visual transduction in the human retina. Dysfunction or death of rod photoreceptors precedes cone loss in many retinal and macular degenerative diseases, suggesting a rod-dependent trophic support for cone survival. Rod differentiation and homeostasis are dependent on the basic motif leucine zipper transcription factor neural retina leucine zipper (NRL). The loss...
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