Title : Effect of vitamin A supplementation on rhodopsin mutants threonine-17 --> methionine and proline-347 --> serine in transgenic mice and in cell cultures.

Pub. Date : 1998 Sep 29

PMID : 9751768






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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