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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-12-12
pubmed:abstractText
Rod ERGs were obtained over a broad range of stimulus intensities from young patients with retinitis pigmentosa and progressive cone-rod degeneration. Intensity-response functions suggest that children with retinitis pigmentosa have reductions in the number of functioning rods and that surviving rods generating the ERG have reduced sensitivity. Children with cone-rod degeneration also have reduced numbers of rods, but the remaining rods have normal sensitivity. These findings suggest that the underlying mechanisms of rod degeneration differ in these two forms of disease and demonstrate that insights into the pathogenesis of hereditary retinal degeneration can be obtained by testing children. The ability to distinguish between retinitis pigmentosa and cone-rod degeneration in children is also important because of differences in the rates of progression between the two classes of progressive retinal degeneration.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0191-3913
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
23
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
227-32
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Rod ERGs in children with hereditary retinal degeneration.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't