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The Centrifugal Visual System: What can Comparative Studies Tell Us about Its Evolution and Possible Function?

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The Changing Visual System

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NSSA,volume 222))

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A wide variety of techniques has been used during the last century to investigate the possibility that some nerve fibers arise from neurons within the central nervous system and terminate in the retina. These techniques vary from the classical silver impregnation of what appear to be free nerve endings, the demonstration of differential rates of degeneration of axons in the proximal and distal stumps of the transected optic nerve, through the retrograde labelling of cell bodies after intraocular injection of a variety of tracers, to the immunohistochemical identification of cell bodies and fibers characterized by a particular neurotransmitter or neuropeptide.

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Ward, R., Repérant, J., Miceli, D. (1991). The Centrifugal Visual System: What can Comparative Studies Tell Us about Its Evolution and Possible Function?. In: Bagnoli, P., Hodos, W. (eds) The Changing Visual System. NATO ASI Series, vol 222. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3390-0_6

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