Environmental light enhances survival and axonal regeneration of axotomized retinal ganglion cells in adult cats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 133-141

  Watanabe, Masami ^a   Inukai, Naoko ^a   Fukuda, Yutaka ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult cat; Axonal regeneration; Dark rearing; Retinal ganglion cell

Indexed keywords

LUCIFER YELLOW;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL DENSITY; CELL LABELING; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE GRAFT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

EID: 0032710829     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7208     Document Type: Article

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