Monocular enucleation prevents retinal ganglion-cell loss following neonatal visual cortex damage in cats

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1097-1105

  Illig, Kurt R ^a,b   King, Von R ^a,c   Spear, Peter D ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c St Thomas's Hospitals   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Plasticity; Retinal ganglion cell; Visual cortex damage; Visual system development; X cell

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL COUNT; ENUCLEATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MONOCULAR VISION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CATS; CELL COUNT; EYE ENUCLEATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0032213959     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523898156092     Document Type: Article

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