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Functional rescue of cone photoreceptors in retinitis pigmentosa

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Disclosure

J-A Sahel is a patent co-inventor of RdCVF and consultant for Sanofi-Fovea

Funding

NOVARTIS Pharma, Sanofi-Fovea, INSERM, Ministère de la Recherche, European 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Program, GIP AVENTIS, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, A.F.M. Téléthon, RETINA France, Fédération des Aveugles de France, Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale, Bettencourt-Schuller Award, Alcon Research Institute Award, Foundation Fighting Blindness/NNRI ,NRJ Neuroscience Award, Association Française contre les Myopathies, LABEX LIFESENSES

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  1. Institut de la Vision, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR_S 968, Paris, 75012, France

    José-Alain Sahel, Thierry Léveillard, Serge Picaud, Deniz Dalkara, Katia Marazova, Avinoam Safran, Michel Paques, Jens Duebel & Saddek Mohand-Said

  2. INSERM, U968, Paris, 75012, France

    José-Alain Sahel, Thierry Léveillard, Serge Picaud, Deniz Dalkara, Katia Marazova, Avinoam Safran, Michel Paques, Jens Duebel & Saddek Mohand-Said

  3. CNRS, UMR_7210, Paris, 75012, France

    José-Alain Sahel, Thierry Léveillard, Serge Picaud, Deniz Dalkara, Katia Marazova, Avinoam Safran, Michel Paques, Jens Duebel & Saddek Mohand-Said

  4. Centre Hospitalier National d’Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts, INSERM-DHOS CIC 503, Paris, 75012, France

    José-Alain Sahel, Avinoam Safran, Michel Paques & Saddek Mohand-Said

  5. Fondation Ophtalmologique Rothschild, Paris, 75019, Paris, France

    José-Alain Sahel

  6. Académie des Sciences-Institut de France, Paris, 75006, Paris, France

    José-Alain Sahel

  7. Institute of Ophthalmology-University College London, London, EC1V 9EL, UK

    José-Alain Sahel

  8. Neural Circuit Laboratories, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, 4058, Basel, Switzerland

    Botond Roska

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Sahel, JA., Léveillard, T., Picaud, S. et al. Functional rescue of cone photoreceptors in retinitis pigmentosa. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 251, 1669–1677 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-013-2314-7

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