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After optic nerve (ON) transection, most retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) undergo retrograde degeneration in adult mammals. When a piece of peripheral nerve (PN) is transplanted to the cut end of an ON, however, a small proportion of RGCs regenerate their axons along the graft [1, 2]. Furthermore, when these axons are reconnected with the target visual centers, the animals with the reconstructed visual pathway can regain some primitive visual functions such as pupillary light reflex and light-dark discrimination [3, 4].
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Kurimoto, T., Miyoshi, T., Yakura, T., Watanabe, M., Mimura, O., Fukuda, Y. (2003). Difference in Survival and Axonal Regeneration Between Alpha and Beta Types of Cat Retinal Ganglion Cells. In: Kaneko, A. (eds) The Neural Basis of Early Vision. Keio University International Symposia for Life Sciences and Medicine, vol 11. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68447-3_58
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