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- Received November 19, 2002
- Revision received April 30, 2003
- Accepted May 1, 2003
- First published July 9, 2003.
- Version of record published July 9, 2003.
Author Information
- Departments of 1Ophthalmology and 2Cell Biology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 3Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, 4Beckman Vision Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0730, and 5Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104
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Disclosures
- Received November 19, 2002.
- Revision received April 30, 2003.
- Accepted May 1, 2003.
This work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (EY00871, EY01919, EY02162, EY06842, EY04149, EY12190, and RR17703), Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), The Foundation Fighting Blindness, Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology–Oklahoma Applied Research Support, Samuel Roberts Nobel Foundation, The IPSEN Foundation, and Presbyterian Health Foundation. M.M.L. is an RPB senior scientist investigator. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Mark Dittmar in the breeding and husbandry of the animals and in the ERG measurements.
Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Isabelle Ranchon, Laboratoire de Biophysiques Sensorielles, Facultés de Médecine et de Pharmacie, 28 Place Henri Dunant, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France. E-mail: isabelle.ranchon{at}uclermont1.fr.
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