Apolipoprotein B100 (apoB100) is the structural protein of several of the lipoprotein cholesterol carriers and accumulates in extracellular deposits in the systemic disease atherosclerosis, and the neurodegenerative blinding disease, age-related macular degeneration. Herein, the authors characterized the retinal pathology of transgenic mice expressing mouse apoB100, in order to catalog their functional and morphological ocular phenotypes, as a function of age, and establish measurable endpoints for their use as a pre-clinical mouse model to test potential therapies.
- Mayur Choudhary
- Faryan Tayyari
- Goldis Malek
