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Ultrastructure of Connecting Cilia in Different Forms of Retinitis Pigmentosa
Shawn D. Barrong;
Michael H. Chaitin, PhD;
Steven J. Fliesler, PhD;
Daniel E. Possin;
Samuel G. Jacobson, MD, PhD;
Ann H. Milam, PhD
Arch Ophthalmol. 1992;110(5):706-710.
Abstract
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The connecting (sensory) cilium of rods and cones is the stalk that separates the outer segment, which contains visual pigment in stacks of membrane discs, from the inner segment, which contains cytoplasmic organelles involved in protein synthesis. There are conflicting reports on the occurrence of abnormal motile cilia in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and very few ultrastructural studies of photoreceptor connecting cilia in retinas from patients with RP. Defective connecting cilia could lead to the outer segment atrophy and degeneration that are characteristic of RP. The present study addresses the hypothesis that photoreceptor connecting cilia, as observed in cross section by electron microscopy, are defective in RP. We examined retinas from five patients with RP and four controls and found morphologic defects in the connecting cilia of one RP patient with type 2 Usher syndrome (86% abnormal, P<.0001) but not in our sample of patients with X-linked (n = 2), simplex (n = 1), or autosomal dominant (n = 1) RP.
Author Affiliations
From the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Washington, Seattle (Messrs Barrong and Possin and Dr Milam), Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami (Fla) School of Medicine (Drs Chaitin and Jacobson); and Bethesda Eye Institute and the E. A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, St Louis (Mo) University School of Medicine (Dr Fliesler).
Footnotes
Reprint requests to Department of Ophthalmology, RJ-10, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-0001 (Dr Milam).
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