Cell Transplant Restores Vision in Rats - A Step Toward Restoring Age Related Vision Loss

Measuring the response of neurons in the primary visual cortex, David Lyon and colleagues demonstrate rats with severe retinal degeneration that received donor cells became sensitive to various attributes of visual stimuli, including size, orientation, and contrast, as early as three months following surgery. The study represents an important step forward in combating age- and disease-related vision loss in human adults.
 
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David BarnstoneThe Society for Neuroscience

Citation:  Detailed visual cortical responses generated by retinal sheet transplants in rats with severe retinal degeneration
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1279-18.2018
Corresponding author: David Lyon (University of California, Irvine, USA     .

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