[Proteins of the retina and its pigmented epithelium in hereditary retinal degeneration].

Water-soluble and membranous proteins of the retina and pigment epithelium were studied by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gel in Campbell albino rats with inherited retinal dystrophy and in Wistar rats that served as control. It was shown that early changes in abnormal animals were characteristic of retinal proteins. The proteins affected in the first turn proved to be other than cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase or opsin. The changes in pigment epithelium were recorded to take place much later.