Early Eye Removal Produces Excessive Bilateral Branching in the Rat: Application of Cobalt Filling Method
- 19 November 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 194 (4267), 857-859
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.982050
Abstract
When one eye of a rat is removed at birth, axons from the remaining eye form an excess of branches which are directed to both sides of the brain. This finding, which is based on a novel application of cobalt tracing methods, provides an explanation for previous reports of expanded uncrossed projections after early eye removal.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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