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STAT3 promotes survival of mutant photoreceptors in inherited photoreceptor degeneration models.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 30 Dec 2014
Jiang Ke, Wright Katherine L, Zhu Ping, Szego Michael J, Bramall Alexa N, Hauswirth William W, Li Qiuhong, Egan Sean E, McInnes Roderick R
Abstract excerpt
Inherited photoreceptor degenerations (IPDs), a group of incurable progressive blinding diseases, are caused by mutations in more than 200 genes, but little is known about the molecular pathogenesis of photoreceptor (PR) death. Increased retinal expression of STAT3 has been observed in response to many retinal insults, including IPDs, but the role of this increase in PR death is unknown. Here, we show that the...
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