Regeneration: New Neurons Wire Up.
Functional repair of damage in the nervous system requires re-establishment of precise patterns of synaptic connectivity. A new study shows that after selective ablation, zebrafish retinal neurons regenerate and reconstruct some, although not all, of their stereotypic wiring.
University of Michigan, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048, USA. Electronic address: praymond@umich.edu.
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