Sugar for sight

Connie Cepko () and Claudio Punzo ()
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Connie Cepko: and at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Claudio Punzo: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01655, USA.

Nature, 2015, vol. 522, issue 7557, 428-429

Abstract: Retinitis pigmentosa causes the death of cone cells, leading to blindness. A factor secreted from rod cells, RdCVF, promotes cone survival in a mouse model of the disease. It now emerges that RdCVF works by increasing glucose uptake in cones.

Date: 2015
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