New potential treatment for inherited blinding disease retinitis pigmentosa (IMAGE)

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New potential treatment for inherited blinding disease retinitis pigmentosa

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Treatment with bioavailable small-molecule pharmacochaperones targeting the visual receptor rhodopsin offers a promising approach to prevent retinal photoreceptor degeneration caused by inherited mutations in this receptor.

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Beata Jastrzebska, created from images on Pixabay by justDIYteam and WikimediaImages (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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