vision/eye
• progressive photoreceptor loss, with degeneration more severe than in the Cancna1ftm1.1Sdie mutants and preferentially of rod photoreceptors and with milder loss of cone photoreceptors
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• reduction in outer nuclear layer (ONL) thickness at 2 and 8 months of age
• residual ONL thickness of only 1/3 of the wild-type retina at 8 months of age
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• Cav1.4 channels display altered gating properties in the photoreceptor terminals
• voltage-dependent calcium flux is retained but is abnormal in photoreceptor synaptic terminals
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• retina shows an increased rate of apoptosis at 1, 2, and 8 months of age, with a 4- to 5-five fold and 70-fold increase in apoptotic photoreceptors at P28 and 2 months, and at 8 months, respectively
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• at photopic conditions, only a small deflection in flash ERGs is measured at 1 month of age
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• at scotopic conditions, a-wave amplitude is smaller at 2 and 8 months of age
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• amplitude of the residual scoptic b-wave is smaller at 2 and 8 months of age, and shows a small and steady age-dependent decline
• photopic b-wave responses are almost absent
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nervous system
• progressive photoreceptor loss, with degeneration more severe than in the Cancna1ftm1.1Sdie mutants and preferentially of rod photoreceptors and with milder loss of cone photoreceptors
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• cone photoreceptor terminals show free-floating ribbons at 2 and 8 months of age
• however, mice show some intact rod ribbon synapses
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• mice exhibit enhanced spouting of rod bipolar- and horizontal cell processes into the ONL already at P14 which peaks at P28 and then declines
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cellular
• retina shows an increased rate of apoptosis at 1, 2, and 8 months of age, with a 4- to 5-five fold and 70-fold increase in apoptotic photoreceptors at P28 and 2 months, and at 8 months, respectively
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Mouse Models of Human Disease |
DO ID | OMIM ID(s) | Ref(s) | |
congenital stationary night blindness 2A | DOID:0110871 |
OMIM:300071 |
J:212726 |