 Night Blindness
"Night Blindness" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Failure or imperfection of vision at night or in dim light, with good vision only on bright days. (Dorland, 27th ed)
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D009755
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C11.966.671
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Night Blindness" by people in Profiles.
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Peachey NS, Ray TA, Florijn R, Rowe LB, Sjoerdsma T, Contreras-Alcantara S, Baba K, Tosini G, Pozdeyev N, Iuvone PM, Bojang P, Pearring JN, Simonsz HJ, van Genderen M, Birch DG, Traboulsi EI, Dorfman A, Lopez I, Ren H, Goldberg AF, Nishina PM, Lachapelle P, McCall MA, Koenekoop RK, Bergen AA, Kamermans M, Gregg RG. GPR179 is required for depolarizing bipolar cell function and is mutated in autosomal-recessive complete congenital stationary night blindness. Am J Hum Genet. 2012 Feb 10; 90(2):331-9.
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Lorenzon NM, Beam KG. Disease causing mutations of calcium channels. Channels (Austin). 2008 May-Jun; 2(3):163-79.
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Pardue MT, Faulkner AE, Fernandes A, Yin H, Schaeffel F, Williams RW, Pozdeyev N, Iuvone PM. High susceptibility to experimental myopia in a mouse model with a retinal on pathway defect. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2008 Feb; 49(2):706-12.
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Taren DL, Duncan B, Shrestha K, Shrestha N, Genaro-Wolf D, Schleicher RL, Pfeiffer CM, Sowell AL, Greivenkamp J, Canfield L. The night vision threshold test is a better predictor of low serum vitamin A concentration than self-reported night blindness in pregnant urban Nepalese women. J Nutr. 2004 Oct; 134(10):2573-8.
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Mihora LD, Jatla KK, Little T, Campbell M, Rahim A, Enzenauer RW. Vitamin A deficiency in Afghanistan. Eye Contact Lens. 2004 Jul; 30(3):159-62.
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Shrestha AK, Duncan B, Taren D, Canfield LM, Greivenkamp JE, Shrestha N, Shrestha KK. A new, simple, inexpensive means of testing functional vitamin A status: the night vision threshold test (NVTT). A preliminary field-test report. J Trop Pediatr. 2000 12; 46(6):352-6.
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Thurnham DI, Zheng SF, Munoz N, Crespi M, Grassi A, Hambidge KM, Chai TF. Comparison of riboflavin, vitamin A, and zinc status of Chinese populations at high and low risk for esophageal cancer. Nutr Cancer. 1985; 7(3):131-43.
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