Transneuronal retrograde degeneration of retinal ganglion cells following cerebral hemispherectomy in cats

Brain Research

Volumn 775, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 203-208

  Theoret H ^a   Herbin, M ^a   Boire, D ^a   Ptito, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell loss; Neonatal lesion; Retinal topography; Visual cortex ablation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CAT; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECORTICATION; HEMISPHERECTOMY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; NERVE DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 18744427478     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00949-9     Document Type: Article

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