Retinal transplants can drive a pupillary reflex in host rat brains.
- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 84 (19) , 6958-6960
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.84.19.6958
Abstract
Retinae taken from embryonic rats were transplanted over the midbrain of neonatal rats, from whom one eye had been removed. After 5 months, the optic nerve of the remaining eye was cut, and the transplant was exposed. Illumination of the transplant caused pupilloconstriction of the host eye, a response abolished by damaging the transplant. Thus neural transplants are capable of driving specific reflexes in response to natural stimuli.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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