Journal of Biological Chemistry
Volume 287, Issue 3, 13 January 2012, Pages 1642-1648
MinireviewsLoss of Daylight Vision in Retinal Degeneration: Are Oxidative Stress and Metabolic Dysregulation to Blame?*
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Gene Therapy
Metabolism
Oxidative Stress
Photoreceptors
Retinal Degeneration
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Postdoctoral Fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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This work was supported by the Foundation for Retinal Research, the Thome Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Foundation Fighting Blindness (to C. L. C.) and by the University of Massachusetts (to C. P.). This is the fifth article in the Thematic Minireview Series on Focus on Vision.
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The abbreviations used are:
- RP
retinitis pigmentosa
- ROS
reactive oxygen species
- RPE
retinal pigment epithelium
- OS
outer segment(s)
- mTOR
mechanistic target of rapamycin
- AAV
adeno-associated virus.
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