Discovery of a Cynomolgus Monkey Family With Retinitis Pigmentosa
Author(s) -
Yasuhiro Ikeda,
Koji M. Nishiguchi,
Fuyuki Miya,
Nobuhiro Shimozawa,
Jun Funatsu,
Shunji Nakatake,
Kohta Fujiwara,
Takashi Tachibana,
Yusuke Murakami,
Toshio Hisatomi,
Shigeo Yoshida,
Yasuhiro Yasutomi,
Tatsuhiko Tsunoda,
Toru Nakazawa,
Tatsuro Ishibashi,
KohHei Sonoda
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
investigative ophthalmology and visual science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.935
H-Index - 218
eISSN - 1552-5783
pISSN - 0146-0404
DOI - 10.1167/iovs.17-22958
Subject(s) - retinitis pigmentosa , ophthalmology , retinal degeneration , medicine , retina , fundus (uterus) , ophthalmoscopy , retinal , macular degeneration , biology , neuroscience
To accelerate the development of new therapies, an inherited retinal degeneration model in a nonhuman primate would be useful to confirm the efficacy in preclinical studies. In this study, we describe the discovery of retinitis pigmentosa in a cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis) pedigree.
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