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Repairing the brain: Trophic factor or transplant?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Nigel W. Bond
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia. psnwb@cc.flinders.edu.au

Abstract

Three experiments on neural grafting with adult rat hosts are described. Working memory impairments were produced by lesioning the hippocampus or severing its connections with the septum by ablating the fimbria-fornix. The results suggest that the survival and growth of a neural graft, whether an autograft or a xenograft, is not a necessary condition for functional recovery on a task tapping working memory.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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