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Revisiting the role of Dcc in visual system development with a novel eye clearing method.
eLife - 25 Feb 2020
Vigouroux Robin J, Cesar Quénol, Chédotal Alain, Nguyen-Ba-Charvet Kim Tuyen
Abstract excerpt
The Deleted in Colorectal Carcinoma (Dcc) receptor plays a critical role in optic nerve development. Whilst Dcc is expressed postnatally in the eye, its function remains unknown as Dcc knockouts die at birth. To circumvent this drawback, we generated an eye-specific Dcc mutant. To study the organization of the retina and visual projections in these mice, we also established EyeDISCO, a novel tissue clearing...
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