Actual problems of the cerebrospinal fluid‐contacting neurons

B Vigh, I Vigh‐Teichmann - Microscopy research and technique, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)‐contacting neurons form a part of the circumventricular organs of
the central nervous system. Represented by different cytologic types and located in different …

Cell transplantation as a treatment for retinal disease

RD Lund, ASL Kwan, DJ Keegan, Y Sauve… - Progress in retinal and …, 2001 - Elsevier
It has been shown that photoreceptor degeneration can be limited in experimental animals
by transplantation of fresh RPE to the subretinal space. There is also evidence that retinal …

Regulation of mammalian circadian behavior by non-rod, non-cone, ocular photoreceptors

MS Freedman, RJ Lucas, B Soni, M Von Schantz… - Science, 1999 - science.org
Circadian rhythms of mammals are entrained by light to follow the daily solar cycle
(photoentrainment). To determine whether retinal rods and cones are required for this …

Restoration of visual function in retinal degeneration mice by ectopic expression of melanopsin

B Lin, A Koizumi, N Tanaka, S Panda… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - pnas.org
The rod and cone cells of the mammalian retina are the principal photoreceptors for image-
forming vision. They transmit information by means of a chain of intermediate cells to the …

Remodeling of cone photoreceptor cells after rod degeneration in rd mice

B Lin, RH Masland, E Strettoi - Experimental eye research, 2009 - Elsevier
We studied the survival of cone photoreceptors following the degeneration of rods in the rd
mouse. Cones were visualized by selective expression of green fluorescent protein (GFP) …

Melanopsin and inner retinal photoreception

HJ Bailes, RJ Lucas - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2010 - Springer
Over the last ten years there has been growing acceptance that retinal photoreception
among mammals extends beyond rods and cones to include a small number of intrinsically …

Photic resetting of the human circadian pacemaker in the absence of conscious vision

EB Klerman, TL Shanahan… - Journal of biological …, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
Ocular light exposure patterns are the primary stimuli for entraining the human circadian
system to the local 24-h day. Many totally blind persons cannot use these stimuli and …

Intraocular retinal prosthesis

MS Humayun - Transactions of the American …, 2001 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
PURPOSE: An electronic implant that can bypass the damaged photoreceptors and
electrically stimulate the remaining retinal neurons to restore useful vision has been …

Aging alters the rhythmic expression of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide mRNA but not arginine vasopressin mRNA in the suprachiasmatic nuclei of female rats

K Krajnak, ML Kashon, KL Rosewell… - Journal of …, 1998 - jneurosci.org
Our laboratory has shown that the ability of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) to regulate a
number of rhythmic processes may be compromised by the time females reach middle age …

Dissecting a role for melanopsin in behavioural light aversion reveals a response independent of conventional photoreception

M Semo, C Gias, A Ahmado, E Sugano, AE Allen… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Melanopsin photoreception plays a vital role in irradiance detection for non-image forming
responses to light. However, little is known about the involvement of melanopsin in …