Transneuronal retrograde degeneration of retinal ganglion cells following restricted lesions of striate cortex in the monkey

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 269-275

  Johnson, Helen ^a   Cowey, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dLGN; Ganglion cells; Monkey; Retina; Striate cortex; Transneuronal degeneration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MACACA; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STRIATE CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DENERVATION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0034106693     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210000384     Document Type: Article

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