Live or let die - retinal ganglion cell death and survival during development and in the lesioned adult CNS
2000 | review. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.
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- Authors
- Bähr, Mathias
- Abstract
- Programmed cell death or apoptosis is a common and widespread phenomenon that is important for proper development of the nervous system. In the adult CNS, however, apoptosis contributes to secondary cell loss after various types of lesions. The retino-tectal system has been successfully used as a convenient model system to study the molecular mechanisms of neuronal apoptosis and survival during development and in the lesioned adult CNS. This review describes the current knowledge about the interactions of cell death and survival pathways in general and for retinal ganglion cells specifically.
- Issue Date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science London
- Journal
- Trends in Neurosciences
- ISSN
- 0166-2236