The rd mouse story: Seventy years of research on an animal model of inherited retinal degeneration

Retinal degeneration in the rd mouse is caused by a defect in the β subunit of rod cGMP-phosphodiesterase

Cathy Bowes, Tiansen Li, Michael Danciger et al. · Nature · 1990 · 858 citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Ophthalmology +17

Cerebral hypoxia: some new approaches and unanswered questions

DW Choi · Journal of Neuroscience · 1990 · 674 citations · Full text

Medicine, Neurology, Neuroscience +17

Identification of a nonsense mutation in the rod photoreceptor cGMP phosphodiesterase beta-subunit gene of the rd mouse.

Steven J. Pittler, Wolfgang Baehr · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1991 · 567 citations

Medicine, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +14

Circadian photoreception in the retinally degenerate mouse (rd/rd)

Ignacio Provencio, David M. Hudson, S. Fiske et al. · Journal of Comparative Physiology A · 1991 · 501 citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +13

Differential effect of the rd mutation on rods and cones in the mouse retina.

Louvenia Carter‐Dawson, Matthew M. LaVail, Richard L. Sidman · PubMed · 1978 · 500 citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Vision Science +17