Retinal Dystrophies (eBook)

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Chair's Introduction (Shomi S Battacharya).

Gene therapy of retinal dystrophies: Achievements, challenges
and prospects (Dean Bok).

Identifying retinal disease genes: how far have we come, how far
do we have to go? (Stephen P Daiger).

Dominant cone and cone-rod dystrophies: functional analysis of
mutations in regGC1 and GCAP1 (David Hunt, Susan E Wilkie,
Richard Newbold, Evelyne Deery, Martin J Warren, Shomi S
Battacharya, and Kang Zhang).

Isotretinoin treatment inhibits lipofuscin accumulation in a
mouse model of recessive Stargardt's macular degeneration
(Roxana A Radu, Nathan L Mata, Steven Nusinowitz, Xinran Liu,
and Gabriel H Travis).

The expanding roles of ABCA4 and CRB1 in inherited blindness
(F P M Cremers, A Maugeri, A I den Hollander, and C B
Hoyng).

What should a clinician know to be prepared for the advent of
treatment of retinal dystrophies? (Alan C Bird).

Role of subunit assembly in autosomal dominant retinitis
pigmentosa link ed to mutations in perpherin 2 (Robert S Molday,
Laurie L Molday, and Christopher J R Loewen).

The search for rod-dependent cone viability factors, secretedd
factors promoting cone viability (Thierry Leveillard, Saddek
Mohand-Said, Anne-Claire Fintz, George Lambrou, and Jose-Alain
Sahel).

Studies on retinal and retinal pigment epithelial gene
expression (Itay Chowers, Noriko Esumi, Peter Campochiaro, and
Donald J Zack).

From disease genes to cellular pathways: a progress report (J
Yu, A J Mears, S Yoshida, R Farjo, T A Carter, D Ghosh, A Hero, C
Barlow, and A Swaroop).

Prospects for gene therapy (Robin R Ali).

Range of retinal diseases potentially treatable by AAV-vectored
gene therapy (William S Hauswirth, Quihong Li, Brian Raisler,
Adrian M Timmers, Kenneth I Berns, John G Flannery, Matthew M
LaVail, and Alfred S Lewin).

Gene therapy for Leber congenital amaurosis (Jean
Bennett).

Index of Contributors.

Subject Index.