Mobile zinc increases rapidly in the retina after optic nerve injury and regulates ganglion cell survival and optic nerve regeneration
Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), the projection neurons of the eye, cannot regenerate their axons once the optic nerve has been injured and soon begin to die. Whereas RGC death and regenerative failure are widely viewed as being cell-autonomous or influenced by various types of glia, we report here th...
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National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111213 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1577-2420 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2693-4982 |