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A Rhodopsin Transport Assay by High-Content Imaging Analysis
Published on: January 16, 2019
[Early diagnosis and heterogeneity of retinitis pigmentosa]
1Neurophysiologie-Laboratorium, Augenklinik des Universitätsspitals Zürich.
Klinische Monatsblatter Fur Augenheilkunde
|May 1, 1990
Abstract:
Early diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa and related diseases is based on a specific history, on perimetry of the outer isopters, and on rod/cone electroretinography. The remarkable variability of phenomenology, age of onset and genetic pattern, however, often complicate early diagnosis. Continuous consulting and documentation of the course of the disease are considered a meaningful care by the physician and represent the basis for the tasks of the geneticist.
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