Unilateral photoreceptor rescue can improve the ability of the opposite, untreated, eye to drive cortical cells in a retinal degeneration model

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-43

  Girman, S V ^a   Lund, R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocular dominance; RCS rat; Retinal degeneration; RPE transplantation; VI cortex unit responses

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; HISTOGRAM; INTRARETINAL CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEGENERATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 18844388965     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523805221041     Document Type: Article

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