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Retained Plasticity and Substantial Recovery of Rod-Mediated Visual Acuity at the Visual Cortex in Blind Adult Mice with Retinal Dystrophy.
Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy - 3 Oct 2018
Nishiguchi Koji M, Fujita Kosuke, Tokashiki Naoyuki, Komamura Hiroshi, Takemoto-Kimura Sayaka, Okuno Hiroyuki, Bito Haruhiko, Nakazawa Toru
Abstract excerpt
In patients born blind with retinal dystrophies, understanding the critical periods of cortical plasticity is important for successful visual restoration. In this study, we sought to model childhood blindness and investigate the plasticity of visual pathways. To this end, we generated double-mutant (Pde6ccpfl1/cpfl1Gnat1IRD2/IRD2) mice with absent rod and cone photoreceptor function, and we evaluated their...
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