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Science 9 September 1994:
Vol. 265. no. 5178, pp. 1593 - 1596
DOI: 10.1126/science.7521541
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Science, Vol 265, Issue 5178, 1593-1596
Copyright © 1994 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Involvement of nitric oxide in the elimination of a transient retinotectal projection in development

HH Wu, CV Williams, and SC McLoon

Department of Cell Biology and Neuroanatomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.

The adult pattern of axonal connections from the eye to the brain arises during development through the refinement of a roughly ordered set of connections. In the chick visual system, refinement normally results in the loss of the ipsilateral retinotectal connections. Inhibition of nitric oxide synthesis reduced the loss of these transient connections. Because nitric oxide is expressed by tectal cells with which retinal axons connect and because reduction of nitric oxide synthesis by tectal cells resulted in a change in the connections of retinal axons, nitric oxide probably serves as a messenger from tectal cells back to retinal axons during development.


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