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Science 10 December 1976:
Vol. 194. no. 4270, pp. 1185 - 1188
DOI: 10.1126/science.63147
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Science, Vol 194, Issue 4270, 1185-1188
Copyright © 1976 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Centrifugal fibers to the eye in a nonavian vertebrate: source revealed by horseradish peroxidase studies

M Halpern, RT Wang, and DR Colman

A source of efferent fibers to the eye of snakes of the genus Thamnophis has been identified by the use of the retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase. Cell bodies of the contralateral nucleus of the ventral supraoptic decussation accumulate horseradish peroxidase after intraocular but not intraorbital injections. Intraocular injections also result in anterograde transport of horseradish peroxidase to retinofugal axon terminals. Intraorbital injections result in accumulation of horseradish peroxidase in the cell bodies of the cranial nerve nuclei of extraocular muscles.


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