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Impairment of Vision in a Mouse Model of Usher Syndrome Type III.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science - 1 Mar 2016
Tian Guilian, Lee Richard, Ropelewski Philip, Imanishi Yoshikazu
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PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to obtain an Usher syndrome type III mouse model with retinal phenotype. METHODS: Speed congenic method was used to obtain Clrn1 exon 1 knockout (Clrn1-/-) and Clrn1N48K knockin (Clrn1N48K/N48K) mice under A/J background. To study the retinal functions of these mice, we measured scotopic and photopic ERG responses. To observe if there are any structural abnormalities, we...
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