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Cone survival and preservation of visual acuity in an animal model of retinal degeneration
2 Apr 2013
Abstract excerpt
The prevention of cone loss during retinal degeneration is a major goal of most therapeutic strategies in retinal degenerative diseases. An intriguing issue in the current research in this field is to understand why a genetic mutation that affects rods eventually leads to cone death. The main objective of the present study was to investigate to what extent rescuing rods from degeneration affects the survival of...
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