The role of mislocalized phototransduction in photoreceptor cell death of retinitis pigmentosa.

Most of inherited retinal diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) cause photoreceptor cell death resulting in blindness. RP is a large family of diseases in which the photoreceptor cell death can be caused by a number of pathways. Among them, light exposure has been reported to induce photorecept...

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Main Authors: Takeshi Nakao, Motokazu Tsujikawa, Shoji Notomi, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Kohji Nishida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3317642?pdf=render