Patent ID: 9434781
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: A01K,A61K,C07K,C12N

Claim Text:
1. A method for improving an eyesight of a subject suffering from retinitis pigmentosa or age related macular degeneration characterized by photoreceptor cell degeneration, consisting of injecting intraocularly a recombinant viral vector consisting essentially of a promoter operably linked to a nucleic acid encoding a single polypeptide wherein said polypeptide is an opsin, wherein the opsin is not rhodopsin into a non-photoreceptor retinal cell selected from the group consisting of horizontal cells, amacrine cells, bipolar cells, and ganglion cells of an affected eye of the subject suffering from retinitis pigmentosa or age related macular degeneration, such that the eyesight of the subject is improved.