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. 1987 Oct;84(19):6958–6960. doi: 10.1073/pnas.84.19.6958

Retinal transplants can drive a pupillary reflex in host rat brains.

H Klassen 1, R D Lund 1
PMCID: PMC299204  PMID: 3477821

Abstract

Retinae taken from embryonic rats were transplanted over the midbrain of neonatal rats, from whom one eye had been removed. After 5 months, the optic nerve of the remaining eye was cut, and the transplant was exposed. Illumination of the transplant caused pupilloconstriction of the host eye, a response abolished by damaging the transplant. Thus neural transplants are capable of driving specific reflexes in response to natural stimuli.

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