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Kristina Narfstrom

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Tamazian G, Simonov S, Dobrynin P, Makunin A, Logachev A, Komissarov A, et al.
Gigascience . 2014 Aug; 3:13. PMID: 25143822
Background: Domestic cats enjoy an extensive veterinary medical surveillance which has described nearly 250 genetic diseases analogous to human disorders. Feline infectious agents offer powerful natural models of deadly human...
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Whiting R, Narfstrom K, Yao G, Pearce J, Coates J, Castaner L, et al.
Exp Eye Res . 2014 Jun; 125:164-72. PMID: 24954537
Late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (CLN2 disease) is a hereditary neurological disorder characterized by progressive retinal degeneration and vision loss, cognitive and motor decline, seizures, and pronounced brain atrophy. This fatal...
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Whiting R, Narfstrom K, Yao G, Pearce J, Coates J, Castaner L, et al.
Exp Eye Res . 2013 Oct; 116:402-10. PMID: 24135299
Late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (CLN2) is a hereditary neurological disorder characterized by progressive retinal degeneration and vision loss, cognitive and motor decline, seizures, and pronounced brain atrophy. The progressive loss...
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Whiting R, Yao G, Narfstrom K, Pearce J, Coates J, Dodam J, et al.
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci . 2013 Jul; 54(8):5432-40. PMID: 23847311
Purpose: To develop instrumentation and methods for thorough quantitative assessment of the pupillary light reflex (PLR) in dogs under varying stimulus conditions. Methods: The PLR was recorded in normal Dachshunds...
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Ekesten B, Komaromy A, Ofri R, Petersen-Jones S, Narfstrom K
Doc Ophthalmol . 2013 Jun; 127(2):79-87. PMID: 23728902
The full-field, flash electroretinogram (ERG) is now a widely used test of canine retinal function for the clinical diagnosis of hereditary retinal dystrophies and other causes of retinal degeneration, assessment...
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Jeong M, Park S, Kim S, Park Y, Narfstrom K, Seo K
J Vet Med Sci . 2013 May; 75(10):1303-8. PMID: 23719750
The purpose of the study was to describe the clinical and electroretinographic features of clinical cases of progressive retinal atrophy (PRA) in miniature schnauzer (MS) of South Korea. Sixty-six MS...
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Narfstrom K, Jeong M, Hyman J, Madsen R, Bergstrom T
Stem Cells Int . 2012 May; 2012:685901. PMID: 22550515
Intensive breeding and selection on desired traits have produced high rates of inherited diseases in dogs. Hereditary retinal degeneration, often called progressive retinal atrophy (PRA), is prevalent in dogs with...
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May C, Narfstrom K
Exp Eye Res . 2012 Apr; 99:45-7. PMID: 22525835
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Hellstrom A, Watt B, Shirazi Fard S, Tenza D, Mannstrom P, Narfstrom K, et al.
PLoS Genet . 2011 Sep; 7(9):e1002285. PMID: 21949658
PMEL is an amyloidogenic protein that appears to be exclusively expressed in pigment cells and forms intralumenal fibrils within early stage melanosomes upon which eumelanins deposit in later stages. PMEL...
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Narfstrom K, Menotti Raymond M, Seeliger M
Vet Ophthalmol . 2011 Sep; 14 Suppl 1:30-6. PMID: 21923821
Only in recent years have specific mutations been elucidated for feline hereditary retinal dystrophies. Molecular genetic characterization of feline diseases has so far been a slow process but with a...