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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2018

Detailed Visual Cortical Responses Generated by Retinal Sheet Transplants in Rats with Severe Retinal Degeneration.

Andrzej T Foik, Georgina A Lean, Leo R Scholl, Bryce T McLelland, Anuradha Mathur, Robert B Aramant, Magdalene J Seiler, David C Lyon

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrzej T FoikDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-1275.ORCID 0000-0003-1110-9223
Georgina A LeanDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-1275.ORCID 0000-0002-1034-4902
Leo R SchollDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-1275.ORCID 0000-0001-9288-1463
Bryce T McLellandDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-1705.
Anuradha MathurDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-1705.ORCID 0000-0002-3054-2922
Robert B AramantDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-1705.
Magdalene J SeilerDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-1705.ORCID 0000-0002-0869-9923
David C LyonDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-1275, dclyon@uci.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4367-5636
University of California, Irvine · US

Funding

Role of cell-type specific circuits in visual processingR01EY024890 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI LYON, DAVID C · 2015 to 2018
$1.5M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024890
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To combat retinal degeneration, healthy fetal retinal sheets have been successfully transplanted into both rodent models and humans, with synaptic connectivity between transplant and degenerated host retina having been confirmed. In rodent studies, transplants have been shown to restore responses to flashes of light in a region of the superior colliculus corresponding to the location of the transplant in the host retina. To determine the quality and detail of visual information provided by the transplant, visual responsivity was studied here at the level of visual cortex where higher visual perception is processed. For our model, we used the transgenic

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Severity of Illness IndexAnimalsEvoked Potentials, VisualFemaleHumansMalePhotic StimulationRatsRats, Long-EvansRats, TransgenicRetinaRetinal DegenerationVisual Cortexneurophysiologyorientation selectivityprimary visual cortexvisual cortexvisual pathwayvisual rehabilitation

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PMID30396913
PMCPMC6290293
OpenAlexW2899973283

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