Retinitis Pigmentosa: Disease Mechanisms, Diagnosis, and Therapies

نویسندگان

  • Xinhua Shu
  • Ji-jing Pang
  • Houbin Zhang
  • David Mansfield
چکیده

1Department of Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK 2School of Ophthalmology & Optometry, The Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China 3Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA 4Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Hospital of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan 610072, China 5Department of Ophthalmology, Inverclyde Royal Hospital, Greenock PA16 0XN, UK

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دوره 2015  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2015