Article
Neurotoxicity of cGMP in the vertebrate retina: from the initial research on rd mutant mice to zebrafish genetic approaches.
Journal of neurogenetics - 1 Sept 2017
Iribarne Maria, Masai Ichiro
Abstract excerpt
Zebrafish are an excellent animal model for research on vertebrate development and human diseases. Sophisticated genetic tools including large-scale mutagenesis methodology make zebrafish useful for studying neuronal degenerative diseases. Here, we review zebrafish models of inherited ophthalmic diseases, focusing on cGMP metabolism in photoreceptors. cGMP is the second messenger of phototransduction, and...
Topics
- Animals
- Cyclic GMP
- Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 6
- Disease Models, Animal
- Humans
- Mice
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Mutation
- Photoreceptor Cells, Vertebrate
- Retina
- Retinal Degeneration
