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A comparative analysis of C57BL/6J and 6N substrains; chemokine/cytokine expression and susceptibility to laser-induced choroidal neovascularization.
Experimental eye research - 1 Dec 2014
Schnabolk Gloriane, Stauffer Kimberly, O'Quinn Elizabeth, Coughlin Beth, Kunchithapautham Kannan, Rohrer Bärbel
Abstract excerpt
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most prevalent cause of blindness in the elderly. To study potential underlying mechanisms of AMD, animal models are utilized, focusing mostly on mice. Recently, genomic and phenotypic differences between the so-called control substrains, C57BL/6J and C57BL/6N, have been described in models of ocular and non-ocular diseases. In particular, the rd8 mutation of the Crb1...
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