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Immunocytochemical analysis of glial cells in the hypomyelinated optic nerve of the BW mutant rat.
Journal of neurocytology - 1 Sept 1991
Chan C L, Wigley C B, Wyse J, Berry M
Abstract excerpt
The Browman-Wyse (BW) rat is a mutant with structural defects of the visual system, including a failure of the proximal (retinal) end of the optic nerve to myelinate. This latter abnormality is correlated with an absence of CAII+ oligodendrocytes, but we have previously shown that astrocytes are normally distributed, as judged by morphological characteristics of GFAP+ cells in vivo. We have further examined in...
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