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Lessons on transplant survival from a successful model system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Stacia B. Moffett
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4236. cooperd@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu

Abstract

Studies on the snail Melampus reveal that connectivity is crucial to the survival of transplanted ganglia. Transplanted CNS ganglia can innervate targets or induce supernumerary structures. Neuron survival is optimized by the neural incorporation that occurs when a transplanted ganglion is substituted for an excised ganglion. Better provision for the trophic requirements of neurons will improve the success of mammalian fetal transplants.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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