Impairment of visual function and retinal ER stress activation in Wfs1-deficient mice.

Wolfram syndrome is an early onset genetic disease (1/180,000) featuring diabetes mellitus and optic neuropathy, associated to mutations in the WFS1 gene. Wfs1-/- mouse model shows pancreatic beta cell atrophy, but its visual performance has not been investigated, prompting us to study its visual fu...

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Main Authors: Delphine Bonnet Wersinger, Nesrine Benkafadar, Jolanta Jagodzinska, Christian Hamel, Yukio Tanizawa, Guy Lenaers, Cécile Delettre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/24823368/?tool=EBI