Pub. Date : 1998 Sep 29
PMID : 9751768
3 Functional Relationships(s)Download |
Sentence | Compound Name | Protein Name | Organism |
1 | Effect of vitamin A supplementation on rhodopsin mutants threonine-17 --> methionine and proline-347 --> serine in transgenic mice and in cell cultures. | Vitamin A | rhodopsin | Mus musculus |
2 | A therapeutic effect of vitamin A supplementation on the course of photoreceptor degeneration, previously reported for patients with retinitis pigmentosa, was tested in two transgenic mouse models of this disease, each carrying a dominant rhodopsin mutation. | Vitamin A | rhodopsin | Mus musculus |
3 | These results show that vitamin A supplementation slows the rate of photoreceptor degeneration caused by a class II rhodopsin mutation. | Vitamin A | rhodopsin | Mus musculus |