Title | Degenerative Retinal Diseases [electronic resource] / edited by Matthew M. LaVail, Joe G. Hollyfield, Robert E. Anderson |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1997 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5933-7 |
Descript | XIII, 426 p. online resource |
I. Cytopathologic, Physiologic, Diagnostic, and Clinical Aspects of Retinal Degeneration -- 1. Histochemical Comparison of Ocular โDrusenโ in Monkey and Human -- 2. TIMP-3 Accumulation in Bruchโs Membrane and Drusen in Eyes from Normal and Age-Related Macular Degeneration Donors -- 3. Photoreceptor Rosettes in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Donor Tissues -- 4. Central Retinal Sensitivity Repeated Measurements as Long Term Follow-up in Retinitis Pigmentosa -- 5. Complete and Incomplete Type Congenital Stationary Night Blindness (CSNB) as a Model of โOFF-Retinaโ and โON-Retinaโ -- 6. A Family with X-Linked Cone Dystrophy Showing a Tapetal-like Reflex -- 7. Autoimmune Retinopathy: Cystoid Macular Edema in Retinitis Pigmentosa Patients -- 8. Norrie Disease in Japan -- II. Animal Models of Retinal Degeneration -- 9. Development of a Model for Macular Degeneration -- 10. Subretinal Iodoacetate: A Model of Retinal Degeneration in Cats -- 11. Hereditary Retinal Dystrophy of Swedish Briard Dogs: Exclusion of Six Candidate Genes by Molecular Genetic Analysis -- 12. The VPP Mouse: A Transgenic Model of Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa -- 13. Altered Regulation of Ion Channels in Cultured Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells from RCS Rats -- 14. Structures of the Oligosaccharides of Rhodopsin from Normal and RCS Rats -- 15. Indocyanine Green Videoangiography in the Royal College of Surgeons Rat -- 16. Defective Choroidal Angiogenesis Precedes Retinal Pigment Epithelial Phagocytic Defect in Neonatal RCS Rats -- 17. Comparative Biology of Retinoid Deprivation and Replacement in Flies and Rodents -- 18. Rhodopsin-Dependent Models of Drosophila Photoreceptor Degeneration -- 19. Recessive Degeneration of Photoreceptor Cells Caused by Point Mutations in the Cytoplasmic Domains of Drosophila Rhodopsin -- III. Mechanisms of Retinal Degeneration and Cell Death -- 20. Nitric Oxide-Induced Increases in Retinal cGMP: A Role in Photoreceptor Degenerations -- 21. Glycohistochemical Study of Light-Induced Retinal Degeneration: Removal System of Apoptotic Cells -- 22. Light-Induced Retinal Degeneration Is Prevented in Mice Lacking c-fos -- 23. Ischemic Neuronal Death in the Fish Retina: In Respect of Oxygen Radicals and Glutathione -- IV. Candidate Genes, Cloning, Mapping, and Other Molecular Genetics of Retinal Degeneration -- 24. Isolation of Candidate Genes for Retinal Degenerations -- 25. Studies on the Cone Cyclic GMP-Phosphodiesterase ?โ Subunit Gene -- 26. Mutations in PDE6A, the Gene Encoding the a-Subunit of Rod Photoreceptor cGMP-Specific Phosphodiesterase, Are Rare in Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa -- 27. Molecular Analysis of the Human PEDF Gene, a Candidate Gene for Retinal Degeneration: Localization to 17pl3.3 -- 28. Screening of Candidate Genes on Japanese Retinal Dystrophies -- 29. Strategies for the Genetic Analysis of Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa in Spanish Families -- 30. Progress in Positional Cloning of RP10 (7q31.3), RP1 (8q11โq21), and VMD1 (8q24) -- 31. Growth Factors in the Retina: Pigment Epithelium-Derived Factor (PEDF) Now Fine Mapped to 17pl3.3 and Tightly Linked to the RP13 Locus -- 32. Genetic and Physical Localisation of the Gene Causing Cone-Rod Dystrophy (CORD2) -- 33. Usher Syndrome Type 1C: Localization to Chromosome 11p14 and Construction of a YAC Contig -- 34. Oguchi Disease, Retinitis Pigmentosa, and the Phototransduction Pathway -- 35. A Patient with Progressive Retinal Degeneration Associated with Homozygous 1147delA Mutation in the Arrestin Gene -- V. Transplantation, Gene Therapy, and Cell Rescue -- 36. bFGF Transfected Iris Pigment Epithelial Cells Rescue Photoreceptor Cell Degeneration in RCS Rats -- 37. Transplantation of Neonatal Neural Retina in Photoreceptor Degeneration of Cats -- 38. Mechanical Aspects of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Transplantation -- 39. Midkine from Various Sources in Constant Light-Induced Photoreceptor Degeneration of the Rat -- 40. The Influence of Oxygen on the Survival and Death of Photoreceptors: Evidence from Rat and Mouse -- 41. Histological Method to Assess Photoreceptor Light Damage and Protection by Survival Factors -- VI. Structural, Physiologic, and Aging Correlates of Retinal Degeneration -- 42. Further Studies on the Phagocytosis of Photoreceptor Outer Segments by Rat Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells -- 43. Purification and Characterization of Matrix Metalloproteinase-3 (Stromelysin-1) from Bovine Interphotoreceptor Matrix -- 44. Senile Retinal Deficiencies in Astrocytes and Blood Vessels -- Corresponding Authors by Chapter Number