Retinal Degeneration

I. The Macula, Aging and Macular Degeneration.- Lipofuscin in Aged and AMD Eyes.- Retinoid Reaction Products in Age Related Retinal Degeneration.- How Many Cones Are Required to "See"?: Lessons from Stargardt's Macular Dystrophy and from Modeling with Degenerate Photoreceptor Arrays.- The Genetics of Age-Related Maculopathy.- Linkage Analysis in Malattia Leventinese, an Autosomal Dominant Form of Macular Degeneration.- Mutations in the Human Retinal Degeneration Slow (RDS) Gene Can Cause Either Retinitis Pigmentosa or Macular Dystrophy.- II. Retinitis Pigmentosa and Allied Retinal Degenerations: Molecular, Cellular and Clinical Studies.- Extensive Genetic Heterogeneity in Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa.- Genetic and Epidemiological Study of Autosomal Dominant (ADRP) and Autosomal Recessive (ARRP) Retinitis Pigmentosa in Sardinia.- Clinical Features of Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa Associated with the Gly-188-Arg Mutation of the Rhodopsin Gene.- Ocular Findings in Patients with Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa Due to a 3-Base Pair Deletion at Codon 255/256 of the Human Rhodopsin Gene.- Phenotypes of Carboxyl-Terminal Rhodopsin Mutations in Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa.- Heterogeneity of Usher Syndrome Type I.- The Norrie Disease Gene: Positional Cloning, Mutation Analysis and Protein Homologies.- Clinical and Genetic Heterogeneity of Leber's Congenital Amaurosis.- Studies toward the Isolation of the RP3 Gene.- Comments on Gene Symbols and Terminology.- Identification of Candidate Genes for Eye Diseases: Studies on a Neural Retina-Specific Gene Encoding a Putative DNA Binding Protein of Leucine Zipper Family.- Nonradioactive Single Strand Conformation Polymorphism (PCR-SSCP): A Simplified Method Applied to a Molecular GeneticScreening of Retinitis Pigmentosa.- Retinopathia Pigmentosa Plus- The Value of Ultrastructural Examination of the Human Retina.- III. Studies of Retinal Degeneration Using Transgenic Mice and Other Animal Models.- Simulation of Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa in Transgenic Mice.- Creating Transgenic Mouse Models of Photoreceptor Degeneration Caused by Mutations in the Rhodopsin Gene.- A Molecular Characterization of the Retinal Degeneration Slow (rds) Mouse Mutation.- Transgenic Mouse Studies of Retinal Degeneration: Expression of the ß-Subunit of cGMP Phosphodiesterase and Transducin ?-Subunits.- Retinal Development under the Influence of SV40 T-Antigen in Transgenic Mice.- Nonsense Mutations in the ? Subunit Gene of the Rod cGMP Phosphodiesterase that Are Associated with Inherited Retinal Degenerative Disease.- Systemic Alterations in Docosahexaenoic Acid Metabolism in Inherited Retinal Degenerations.- Variable Expressivity of rd-3 Retinal Degeneration Dependent on Background Strain.- Retinal Degenerations in the Briard Dog.- IV. Agents Which Cause or Prevent Retinal Degeneration.- Growth Factors as Possible Therapeutic Agents for Retinal Degeneration.- Laser Effects on Photoreceptor Degeneration in the RCS Rat.- Role of Heat Shock Protein 70 (HSP70) in Photoreceptor Cell Survival in the Aged Rat.- A Morphometric and Immunopathologic Study of Retinal Photic Injury in Primate.- Cutaneous Melanoma-Associated Retinopathy.- The Effect of Naphthalene on the Retina of Rabbit.- Biological Effects of Retinoids and Retinoid Metabolism in Cultures of Chick Embryo Retina Neurons and Photoreceptors.