Orléansville, Algeria 1943
Your Central Visual Field by XKCD
This little bit of visual comic brilliance comes to you by way of XKCD. Click here for the full size image from the XKCD website. XKCD is one of my all time favorite websites with a new comic posted fairly routinely. I’ve been following the author of XKCD, Randall Munroesince his very first postings on …
Connectomics Annotation Fest Extraordinaire (CAFE)
Notable Paper: Full-Length Axon Regeneration In The Adult Mouse Optic Nerve and Partial Recovery of Simple Visual Behaviors
Friend, Yves Sauvé sent in this paper by Silmara de Lima, Yoshiki Koriyama, Takuji Kurimoto, Julia Teixeira Oliveira, Yuqin Yin, Yiqing Li, Hui-Ya Gilbert, Michela Fagiolini, Ana Maria Blanco Martinez, and Larry Benowitz that documents regeneration of the optic nerve in the adult mouse, a potentially substantial breakthrough in therapeutic recovery of vision lost through disease or …
New York, New York
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Scott Lauritzen and James Tucker Defend PhDs
Abstract Cell Bodies In Brain
Notable Paper: Functional and Anatomical Remodeling in Human Retinal Detachment
This manuscript by Clairton F de Souza, Michael Kalloniatis, Philip J Polkinghorne, Charles N J McGhee and Monica L Acosta examined retinal remodeling in response to a form of retinal detachment. Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. The authors describe the changes observed and note that retinal plasticity is acute and likely occurs quickly enough that it may explain persistent …
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Red Bellied Woodpecker In The Everglades
Complicated Retinal Detatchment
This set of images (click the image above to enlarge) are optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of retained perfluoro-octane(PFO) droplets after repair of a complicated retinal detachment. PFO is a good surgical tool to help reattach the retina as they force sub retinal fluid out of any retinal tears and helps adhere the retina …
ARVO 2012
Notable Paper: Microglia Sculpt Postnatal Neural Circuits In An Activity And Complement-Dependent Manner
This very cool study by Dorothy P. Schafer, Emily K. Lehrman, Amanda G. Kautzman, Ryuta Koyama, Alan R. Mardinly, Ryo Yamasaki, Richard M. Ransohoff, Michael E. Greenberg, Ben A. Barres and Beth Stevens demonstrates how the immune system can participate in the circuitry of the developing mouse lateral genicular nucleus (LGN). As the immune cells of the central nervous system (CNS), microglia are constantly …
Everglades National Park, 2012
