Stimulation of the insulin/mTOR pathway delays cone death in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa.

Punzo C, Kornacker K, Cepko CL. Stimulation of the insulin/mTOR pathway delays cone death in a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa. Nat Neurosci. 2009 Jan; 12(1):44-52.

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subject areas

Amino Acid Substitution
Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Animals
Autophagy
Carrier Proteins
Cell Death
Cell Survival
Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 6
Insulin
Mice
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Mice, Knockout
Microarray Analysis
Nutrition Disorders
Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)
Retina
Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells
Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells
Retinitis Pigmentosa
Rhodopsin
Time Factors
TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases
Transgenes

authors with profiles

Claudio Punzo PhD