Table 1.

Summary of experiments

Subject	Species	Sex	Age at beginning of experiment	Experimental procedure1-a	Time until next procedure (or perfusion)	Techniques	Figures
Monkey 1	M. fascicularis	Male	11 years	1. OD—enucleated	15 weeks	CO	3
				OS—normal
Monkey 2	M. mulatta	Female	15 years	1. OD—sutured	29 weeks	CO	4, 7, 8, 9
				2. OS—focal laser lesion, temporal retina	9 weeks
Monkey 3	M. mulatta	Male	12 weeks	1. OD—sutured	12 months	CO, autoradiography	5
				2. OS—normal, [3H]proline injection	9 d
Monkey 4	M. mulatta	Female	5 weeks	1. OD—sutured 2. OS—normal, [3H]proline injection	24 months 9 d	CO, autoradiography, Luxol fast blue, Nissl	6
Monkey 5	M. mulatta	Female	3 weeks	1. OD—sutured 2. OS—normal, [3H]proline injection	24 months 9 d	CO, autoradiography, Luxol fast blue, Nissl	Not illustrated
Monkey 6	M. mulatta	Female	9 years	1. OD—sutured	33 weeks	CO, anti-Zif268	Not illustrated
				2. OS—focal laser lesion, temporal retina	6 weeks
Monkey 7	M. fascicularis	Male	10 years	1. OS—focal laser lesion, temporal retina	7 weeks	CO, anti-Zif268	10–12
				2. OD—enucleated	4 hr
Monkey 8	M. fascicularis	Male	8 years	1. OD—enucleated	11 months	CO, autoradiography	13–16
				2. OS—focal laser lesion, temporal retina	14 weeks
				3. OS—focal laser lesion, nasal retina	3 weeks
				4. OS—[3H]proline injection	9 d
Human subject		Male	67 years	OD—normal	4 years	CO	17–19
				OS—macular degeneration

^F1-aOD, Right eye; OS, left eye.