Failure to restore vision after optic nerve regeneration in reptiles: Interspecies variation in response to axotomy

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 478, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 292-305

  Dunlop, Sarah A ^a,b   Tee, Lisa B G ^a   Stirling, R Victoria ^a   Taylor, Andrew L ^a   Runham, Phil B ^a   Barber, Andy B ^a   Kuchling, Gerald ^a   Rodger, Jenny ^a,b   Roberts, J Dale ^a   Harvey, Alan R ^a,b   Beazley, Lyn D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evolution; Neurotrauma; Repair; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEHYRA VARIEGATA; CHELODINA OBLONGA; COELENTERATE; CTENOPHORUS ORNATUS; GALLOTIA GALLOTI; LIZARD; NEPHRURUS STELLATUS; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PARAREPTILIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TURTLE; VIPER ASPIS; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; AXOTOMY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARBOCYANINES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE REGENERATION; OPTIC NERVE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; REPTILES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TIME FACTORS; VISION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 4744350869     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20299     Document Type: Article

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