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Ganglion cell acuity in hooded rats
(Elsevier, 1982)
Previous measurements of retinal ganglion cell acuity in hooded rats have differed significantly from behavioral tests of visual acuity. One possible source of this discrepancy is examined--that light deprivation in early ...
Assessment of foveal cone photoreceptors in Stargardt's macular dystrophy using a small dot detection task
(Elsevier, 1993-07)
We measured frequency-of-seeing curves for tiny (1.125 and 3.375 min arc) stimuli flashed briefly at absolute threshold to estimate the density of foveal cones in normals and in subjects with Stargardt's macular dystrophy. ...
Plasma-induced changes in the physiology of mammalian retinal glial cells: Role of glutamate
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999-02-01)
Plasma can leak into the nervous system when the vascular endothelial barrier is compromised. Although this occurs commonly, little is known about the effects of plasma on the function of cells in the central nervous system. ...
Nerve growth factor: a mitogenic signal for retinal muller glial cells
(Elsevier, 1994-06-27)
Knowledge of the effects of nerve growth factor (NGF) on glia is limited. A CNS site where NGF-glial interactions may occur is the retina. NGF is endogenous to the retina, and the retinal Muller glial cells have NGF ...
A calcium-activated, calcium-permeable ion channel in human retinal glial cells: modulation by basic fibroblast growth factor
(Elsevier, 1991-05-10)
A calcium-permeable, voltage-insensitive non-specific cation channel that is activated by cytoplasmic calcium was found in approximately 50% of the cell-attached patches in cultured human retinal glial cells sampled by the ...
Antibodies against pax6 immunostain amacrine and ganglion cells and neuronal progenitors, but not rod precursors, in the normal and regenerating retina of the goldfish
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996-03)
Pax6 is a developmental regulatory gene that plays a key role in the development of the embryonic brain, eye, and retina. This gene is also expressed in discrete groups of neurons within the adult brain. In this study, ...
Stretch-activated channels in human retinal muller cells
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1991)
The cell-attached and excised patch configurations of the patch clamp technique were used to study stretch-activated ion channels in Muller glial cells that were obtained from postmortem adult human retinas and were ...
Local regeneration in the retina of the goldfish
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1992-03)
We have studied regeneration of the retina in the goldfish as a model of regenerative neurogenesis in the central nervous system. Using a transsclearal surgical approach, we excised small patches of retina that were replaced ...